Review: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
User Review - Hortense - GoodreadsIsn't it funny how shaking hands and introductions can be considered disinfectant rituals? There is no Immunity to mis-recognitions, polite errors , blasphemy of place, undertow jaw of evil, overbite ... Read full review
Review: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
User Review - Reb - GoodreadsIt would be presumptuous to review this. But other people's reviews are hilarious! "I'm a little bit racist" "Bullshitter's Bible" lots of glowing talk about Leviticus, which is the part she specifically takes back and says she was wrong about... Read full review
Review: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
User Review - Castaway - GoodreadsWas rivetted and sad when it ended . Read full review
Review: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
User Review - Christopher - GoodreadsMary Douglas' Purity and Danger? Oh, you mean the Bullshitter's Bible? Yes. I've read that. If by "read" you mean I've skimmed through it to find points vague enough to support a thesis imposed on me ... Read full review
Review: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
User Review - Amicia Rai - GoodreadsIf you are interested in anthropology I suppose that this would be an interesting book for you. It was not for me. I felt that it could have been much much shorter. Many things are repeated over and ... Read full review
Review: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
User Review - Michael - GoodreadsThis may be an entertaining book if you want to read stories of foreign cultures and habits, but I'm slightly racist (only a little teensy bit though) so I found this annoying. This book remains ... Read full review
Review: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
User Review - Erin - GoodreadsRead for college Victorian Garbage (literature class). Read full review
Review: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
User Review - Kijan - GoodreadsLucid and compelling. Interesting implications for ideas about cultural and racial differences along the axis of order and disorder. Her book, Leviticus as Literary Text is a good follow up to her methodological errors in chapter three of this text. Read full review
Review: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
User Review - Seone - GoodreadsDespite its many detractors, I found this book fascinating. It gave me a new outlook on many women's issues, particularly in studies in religions. It's a must have for anyone wanting to explore purity/pollution taboos. Read full review
Review: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
User Review - Emily - GoodreadsThe most surprising thing about reading Mary Douglas's 1966 anthropological classic Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, was my sheer enjoyment of the thing. This is a ... Read full review
