ISBN:
0415040922
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9780415040921
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0415040930
,
9780415040938
,
0203159225
,
9780203159224
,
0203020227
,
9780203020227
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xx, 315 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Mary Douglas
DDC:
305.80092
Keywords:
Douglas, Mary
;
Douglas, Mary
;
Douglas, Mary 1921-
;
Ethnologists Biography
;
Great Britain
;
Ethnologists Biography
;
Ethnologists Biography
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Ethnologists
;
Biography
;
Biographies
;
Great Britain
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Biografie
;
Bibliographie
;
Biographie
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Mary Douglas's monographs and collected essays: A note on referencing; 1 Memories of a Catholic girlhood': 1920s and 1930s; 2 Oxford years: 1940s; 3 The Africanist: 1950s; 4 Purity and Danger revisited; 5 Natural Symbols defended; 6 Rituals of consumption; 7 Verbal weapons and environments at risk; 8 Returning to religion ... in the contemporary West; 9 Returning to religion ... in the Old Testament; 10 Do institutions think?; 11 The secret consciousness of individuals and the consecrated society; References
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record
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