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.