Mary Douglas : a very personal method ; anthropological writings drawn from life / edited by Richard Fardon. - x, 318 p. ; 24 cm

Contents;

Part 1: Familiar feelings
1. A feeling for hierarchy
2. Hooked on fishing
3. The gender of the trout
etc.

Part 2: Thinking about Catholicism in lele
5. The Lele of the Congo
6. The problem of evil among the Lele: sorcery, witch-hunt and Christian teaching in Africa
7. The devil vanishes
etc.

Part 3: Taboo and ritual
10. Taboo
11. The contempt of ritual
12. The contempt of ritual [again]

Part 4: Contemporaries
13. On Franz Steiner: a memoir
14. On E. E. Evans-Pritchard: from the tablet notebook
15. On Levi-Strauss: Wild pansies: speaking tenderly of its layered puff pastry effect
etc.

Part 5: Inclusion as conclusion
18. Knowing the code
19. A course off the menu
20. To honour the dead
etc.




Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781446254684 9781446254691

2012936391

016177120 Uk


Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007.


Anthropology--Methodology.
Anthropologists.
Ethnologists.
Women anthropologists.
Women ethnologists.
Anthropologists.
Anthropology--Methodology.
Ethnologists.
Women anthropologists.
Women ethnologists.
Ethnologie.
Forschung.
Methodologie.
Antropologi--metodik.

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