Implicit meanings : selected essays in anthropology /

Implicit Meanings was first published to great acclaim in 1975. It includes writings on the key themes which are associated with Mary Douglas' work and which have had a major influence on anthropological thought, such as food, pollution, risk, animals and myth. The papers in this text demonstra...

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Tác giả chính: Douglas, Mary
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Phiên bản:2nd ed.
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  • Part PART 1 Essays on the implicit
  • chapter Introduction 1975
  • chapter 1 The Lele of the Kasai
  • chapter 2 Social and religious symbolism of the Lele
  • chapter 3 Animals in Lele religious symbolism
  • chapter 4 Techniques of sorcery control in Central Africa
  • chapter 5 Sorcery accusations unleashed
  • The Lele revisited, 1987
  • chapter 6 Looking back on the 1950s essays
  • part PART 2 Critical essays
  • chapter Introduction 1975
  • chapter 7 Pollution
  • chapter 8 If the Dogon ...
  • chapter 9 The meaning of myth
  • chapter 10 Jokes
  • chapter 11 Do dogs laugh? A cross-cultural approach to body symbolism
  • chapter 12 Couvade and menstruation
  • The relevance of tribal studies
  • chapter 13 The healing rite
  • chapter 14 Obituary of Godfrey Lienhardt
  • chapter 15 Looking back on the 1960s essays
  • part PART 3 Essays on the a priori
  • chapter Introduction 1975
  • chapter 16 Environments at risk
  • chapter 17 The depoliticisation of risk
  • chapter 18 Deciphering a meal
  • chapter 19 Self-evidence
  • chapter 20 Rightness of categories
  • chapter 21 Looking back on the 1970s essays.