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  • HeBIS  (8)
  • Douglas, Mary
  • Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest  (7)
  • Berkeley : University of California Press  (1)
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  • 1
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781134557714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (608 pages)
    DDC: 302
    Abstract: First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of drinking. The three constructive functions are: that drinking has a real social role in everyday life; that drinking can be used to construct an ideal world; and that drinking is a significant economic activity. The case studies deal with a variety of exotic drinks.
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  • 2
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136488924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (305 pages)
    DDC: 305.896
    Abstract: This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are early indications of Douglas's cultural imagination and written expression that were to make her works accessible and relevant to a western readership of non-anthropologists. The intellectural tools and examples she gained from Africanist ethnography continue to serve her explorations of European and American society.
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  • 3
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136489204
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 pages)
    DDC: 390
    Abstract: 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 development within anthropology. In 1995 the book was included among the Times Literary Supplement's hundred most influential non-fiction works since WWII. Incorporating the philosophy of religion and science and a generally holistic approach to classification, Douglas demonstrates the relevance of anthropological enquiries to an audience outside her immediate academic circle. She offers an approach to understanding rules of purity by examining what is considered unclean in various cultures. She sheds light on the symbolism of what is considered clean and dirty in relation to order in secular and religious, modern and primitive life.
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  • 4
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781135033743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (119 pages)
    DDC: 304
    Abstract: First published in 1985, Mary Douglas intended Risk and Acceptability as a review of the existing literature on the state of risk theory. Unsatisfied with the current studies of risk, which she found to be flawed by individualistic and psychologistic biases, she instead uses the book to argue risk analysis from an anthropological perspective. Douglas raises questions about rational choice, the provision of public good and the autonomy of the individual.
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  • 5
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136721151
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (319 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences. In opposition to this, the author seeks to assert an active voice style of thinking about the relations between individuals and their cultural environment, whether in economics, history or literary criticism. This collection is assembled with the guiding principle that all the essays touch upon the borderland between economic values and personal judgements of quality. Several essays illustrate the theme from the place of economics in anthropology and the place of economic behaviour in sociological and cultural criticism. The essay on 'Cultural bias' suggests a systematic method of analysis for investigating social influences on judgement and choice.
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  • 6
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781317833697
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (305 pages)
    DDC: 394.120973
    Abstract: First published in 1984, This work is a cross-cultural study of the moral and social meaning of food. It is a collection of articles by Douglas and her colleagues covering the food system of the Oglala Sioux, the food habits of families in rural North Carolina, meal formats in an Italian-American community near Philadelphia. It also includes a grid/group analysis of food consumption.
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  • 7
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203430866
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302/.12
    Abstract: 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 being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society. In this collection of recent essays, Mary Douglas develops a programme for studying risk and blame that follows from ideas originally proposed in Purity and Danger. She suggests how political and cultural bias can be incorporated into the study of risk perception and in the discussion of responsibility in public policy.
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  • 8
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520907393 , 0520907396
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (232 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304
    Keywords: Risk ; NATURE ; Environmental Conservation & Protection ; Risk ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Can We Know the Risks We Face?; I: Risks are Hidden; II: Risks are Selected; III: Scientists Disagree; IV: Assessment is Biased; V: The Center is Complacent; VI: The Border is Alarmed; VII: The Border Fears for Nature; VIII: America is a Border Country; IX: The Dialogue is Political; Conclusion: Risk is a Collective Construct; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.
    Abstract: Can we know the risks we face, now or in the future? No, we cannot; but yes, we must act as if we do. Some dangers are unknown; others are known, but not by us because no one person can know everything. Most people cannot be aware of most dangers at most times. Hence, no one can calculate precisely the total risk to be faced. How, then, do people decide which risks to take and which to ignore? On what basis are certain dangers guarded against and others relegated to secondary status? This book explores how we decide what risks to take and which to ignore, both as individuals and as a culture
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