 | Mary Douglas - 2003 - 193 pages
Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of application, rebuttal and ... | |
 | Mary Douglas - 2003 - 344 pages
Implicit Meanings was first published to great acclaim in 1975. It includes writings on the key themes which are associated with Mary Douglas' work and which have had a major ... | |
 | Mary Douglas - 1996 - 183 pages
There are no such things as natural symbols. Every culture naturalises a certain view of the human body to make it carry social meanings. This work focuses on how the ... | |
 | Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas - 2002 - 336 pages
Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly ... | |
 | Richard Fardon - 2002 - 336 pages
This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social anthropologist whose publications span the second half of the twentieth century ... | |
 | Franz Steiner - 2004 - 160 pages
Scholars have been trying to explain taboo customs ever since Captain Cook discovered them in Polynesia over 200 years ago. The subject has been treated at length, but none of ... | |
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