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  • 2000-2004  (5)
  • Douglas, Mary  (3)
  • Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
  • Hoboken : Taylor and Francis  (5)
  • New York, NY : JSTOR
  • 1
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    Natural Symbols : Explorations in Cosmology (2004)
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    ISBN: 9780415314541
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (241 p)
    Edition: 3rd ed
    Series Statement: Routledge Classics
    Parallel Title: Print version Natural Symbols : Explorations in Cosmology
    DDC: 302.2/22
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    Abstract: First published in 1970, this classic text represents a work of anthropology in its widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society
    Description / Table of Contents: Mary Douglas Natural Symbols Explorations in cosmology; Copyright; Contents; List of Diagrams; Acknowledgements; Introduction to 1996 Edition; Introduction; 1 Away from ritual; 2 To inner experience; 3 The Bog Irish; 4 Grid and group; 5 The two bodies; 6 Test cases; 7 The problem of evil; 8 Impersonal rules; 9 Control of symbols; 10 Out of the cave; Bibliography; Index
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  • 2
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    Ritual, Performance, Media (2003)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415163378
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (249 p)
    Series Statement: ASA Monographs
    Parallel Title: Print version Ritual, Performance, Media
    DDC: 302.23
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    Abstract: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Ritual, Performance, Media; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Theatre as a site of passage: some reflections on the magic of acting; Chapter 2 Performing pilgrimage: Walsingham and the ritual construction of irony; Chapter 3 Ritual, performance and media in urban contemporary shrine configurations in Benin City, Nigeria; Chapter 4 From ritualization to performativity: the Concheros of Mexico; Chapter 5 Perspectives towards ballet performance: exploring, repairing and maintaining frames
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6 From ritual sacrifice to media commodity: anthropological and media constructions of the Spanish bullfight and the rise of women performensChapter 7 'A oes heddwch?' Contesting meanings and identities in the Welsh National Eisteddfod; Chapter 8 Macedonian culture and its audiences: an analysis of Before the Rain; Chapter 9 Hard sell: commercial performance and the narration of the self; Chapter 10 Problematizing performance; Chapter 11 Bound and unbound entities: reflections on the ethnographic perspectives of anthropology vis-à-vis media and cultural studies; Index
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    Recasting Ritual : Performance, Media, Identity (2003)
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    ISBN: 9780415182799
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (183 p)
    Series Statement: European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Parallel Title: Print version Recasting Ritual : Performance, Media, Identity
    DDC: 306.4
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    Abstract: 〈I〉Recasting Ritual〈/I〉, uses worldwide case studies to explore how ritualized action changes in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Clowns, dignity and desire: on the relationship between performance, identity and reflexivity; From temple to television: the Balinese case; Performances of masculinity in a Maltese festa; Nomadic performance; peculiar culture? 'Exotic' ethnic performances of WoDaaBe nomads of Niger; Making persons in a global ritual? Embodied experience and free-floating symbols in Olympic sport; Reimagining identity, cultural production and locality under transnationalism: performances of San Juan in the Ecuadorean Andes
    Description / Table of Contents: Index
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  • 4
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    Natural Symbols (2002)
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    ISBN: 9780415138253
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (222 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Natural Symbols
    DDC: 302.2/22
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This classic text represents a work of anthropology in the widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society. With a new, and highly topical introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of diagrams; Acknowledgements; Introduction to 1996 edition; Introduction; Away from ritual; To inner experience; The Bog Irish; Grid and group; The two bodies; Test cases; The problem of evil; Impersonal rules; Control of symbols; Out of the cave; Bibliography; Index
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  • 5
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    Risk and Blame : Essays in Cultural Theory (2002)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415119993
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (336 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Risk and Blame : Essays in Cultural Theory
    DDC: 302.12
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    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 percep
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; RISK AND BLAME; RISK AND JUSTICE; RISK AND DANGER; MUFFLED EARS; WITCHCRAFT AND LEPROSY: TWO STRATEGIES FOR REJECTION; THE SELF AS RISK-TAKER: A CULTURAL THEORY OF CONTAGION IN RELATION TO AIDS; THE NORMATIVE DEBATE AND THE ORIGINS OF CULTURE; WANTS; NO FREE GIFTS: INTRODUCTION TO MAUSS'S ESSAY ON THE GIFT; INSTITUTIONS OF THE THIRD KIND: BRITISH AND SWEDISH LABOUR MARKETS COMPARED; AUTONOMY AND OPPORTUNISM; THOUGHT STYLE EXEMPLIFIED: THE IDEA OF THE SELF; CREDIBILITY; A CREDIBLE BIOSPHERE; THE DEBATE ON WOMEN PRIESTS
    Description / Table of Contents: THE HOTEL KWILU: A MODEL OF MODELSName index; Subject index
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