In the Active Voice

ISBN-13: 9780415667081 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 322 str.

Mary Douglas

Opis

This collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences.

Spis treści

1. Passive Voice Theories in Religious Sociology  2. Goods as a System of Communication  3. Money  4. Food as a System of Communication  5. Good Taste: Review of Pierre Bourdieu, La Distinction  6. Population Control in Primitive Groups  7. Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong: A Study of Economic Backwardness  8. The Exclusion of Economics  9. Cultural Bias  10. Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945  11. Judgments on James Frazer  12. The Debate on the Holy: Review of The Making of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown

O autorze

Mary Douglas