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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    London : Routledge
    ISBN: 0415040922 , 9780415040921 , 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 ; 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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  • 2
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    London : Routledge
    ISBN: 9780415107921
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (249 p.)
    Series Statement: ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge
    Parallel Title: Print version Counterworks : Managing the Diversity of Knowledge
    DDC: 306/.01
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Counterworks argues that the apparent oppostion between strong westernizing forces and a weak concept of culture needs rethinking in a world where a sense of culture has become a wide spread property of people's social knowledge
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Series editor's preface; Preface; Introduction: counterworks; Self and other in contemporary anthropology; As I lay laughing: encountering global knowledge in Bali; Against syncretism: 'Africanizing' and 'Cubanizing' discourses in North American rs worship; Knowing the past: plural identities and the antinomies of loss in Highland Bolivia; It takes one to know one: collective resentment and mutual recognition among Greeks in local and global contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: Latticed knowledge: eradication and dispersal of the unpalatable in Islam, medicine and anthropological theoryWhose knowledge and whose power? A new perspective on cultural diffusion; From cosmology to environmentalism: shamanism as local knowledge in a global setting; The production of locality; Name index; Subject index;
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