ISBN:
9780415138253
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0415138256
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9780415138260
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0415138264
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0203036050
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9780203036051
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxxvii, 183 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Natural symbols
DDC:
302.222
Keywords:
Human body Religious aspects
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Human body Mythology
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Ritual
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Symbolism
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Human body Mythology
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Human body Religious aspects
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Symbolism
;
Ritual
;
Human body Mythology
;
Human body Religious aspects
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Communication Studies
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Human body ; Mythology
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Human body ; Religious aspects
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Ritual
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Symbolism
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"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 selections from blood, bones, breath or excrement, are made. Body symbolism is always in service to social intentions, and the body cannot be endowed with universal meanings." "In this now classic work Mary Douglas shows how certain forms of social life bring forth regularly the same varieties of symbolic expression. Hierarchy treats the body as a hierarchy; sect treats it as a closed system; individualism treats it as pervasive energy. Political movements as well as religions have their rituals, medicine, ethics, educational theory, aesthetics, a huge range of judgements fall into line behind the standard cultural bias."--Jacket
Abstract:
Chapter 1 Away from ritual -- chapter 2 To inner experience -- chapter 3 The Bog Irish -- chapter 4 Grid and group -- chapter 5 The two bodies -- chapter 6 Test cases -- chapter 7 The problem of evil -- chapter 8 Impersonal rules -- chapter 9 Control of symbols -- chapter 10 Out of the cave.
Note:
Originally published: 2nd ed. London : Barrie and Jenkins, 1973. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-176) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Originally published: 2nd ed. London : Barrie and Jenkins, 1973
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