9780415291057
Mary Douglas Collected Works: Purity and Danger An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
Mary Douglas
ISBN 13: 9780415291057
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
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In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate - from religion to social theory. But perhaps its most important role is to offer each reader a new explanation of why people behave in the way they do. With a specially commissioned introduction by the author which assesses the continuing significance of the work thirty-five years on, this Routledge Classics edition will ensure that Purity and Danger continues to challenge and question well into the new millennium.
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Book Description: Taylor and Francis(Routledge), 2002. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 8.504 by 5.433 inches. (208 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. Purity and Danger is acknowedged as a modern masterpiece of anthropoogy. It is widey cited in non-anthropoogica works and gave rise to a body of appication, rebutta and deveopment within anthropoogy. In 1995 the book was incuded among the Times Literary Suppement's hundred most infuentia non-fiction works since WWII. Incorporating the phiosophy of reigion and science and a generay hoistic approach to cassification, Dougas demonstrates the reevance of anthropoogica enquiries to an audience outside her immediate academic circe. She offers an approach to understanding rues of purity by examining what is considered uncean in various cutures. She sheds ight on the symboism of what is considered cean and dirty in reation to order in secuar and reigious, modern and primitive ife. 'A cassic book.' – New York Times (Hardback). Bookseller Inventory # AG0415291054 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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