Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9780415606738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 322 str.

Professor Mary Douglas

Opis

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 demonstrate the importance of seeking to understand beliefs and practices that are implicit and a priori within what might seem to be alien cultures.

Spis treści

New material for this edition: Part I: New Introduction. 1. The Lele of the Kasai (1954); 4.Te chniques of Sorcery Control in Central Africa (1963); 5.The Lele Revisited (1987) Part II: New Introduction; 12. Obituary of Godfrey Lienhardt (1994) Part III: New Introduction 13. The Politicization of Risk (1970), 16. Rightness of Categories (1993)

O autorze

Mary Douglas, Professor Mary Douglas