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Mary Douglas : a very personal method ; anthropological writings drawn from life / edited by Richard Fardon.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : SAGE, 2013Description: x, 318 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781446254684
  • 9781446254691
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.01 23 MAR
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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.

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