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Auteur: Mary Douglas
paperbackEngels272 blz.9780415289955
1e druk
12-10-2024
In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. Meer
paperbackEngels192 blz.9780300167856
1e druk
5-10-2010
Exploring beyond the usual boundaries of social anthropology, a leader in the field shows why our readings of ancient literary texts may be off the mark. Meer
paperbackEngels232 blz.9780367679828
12-10-2024
A radical rethinking of consumerism, inequality and social capital, The World of Goods is a classic of economic anthropology whose insights remain compelling and urgent. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415291040
5-9-2002
This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are early indications of Douglas's cultural imagination and written expression that were to make her works accessible and relevant to a western readership of non-anthropologists. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415291071
5-9-2002
First published in 1973, Rules and Meanings is an anthology of works that form part of Mary Douglas' struggle to devise an anthropological modernism conducive to her opposition to reputedly modernizing trends in contemporary society. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415291101
5-9-2002
First published in 1980, this book provides an overview of E. E. Evans-Pritchard's approach to anthropology. His seminal works on the Azande and the Nuer had an immense impact on the field in Britain. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415291118
5-9-2002
First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the grip/group analysis from Natural Symbols. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415291125
5-9-2002
First published in 1984, This work is a cross-cultural study of the moral and social meaning of food. It is a collection of articles by Douglas and her colleagues covering the food system of the Oglala Sioux, the food habits of families in rural North Carolina, meal formats in an Italian-American community near Philadelphia. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415291132
5-9-2002
First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of drinking. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415291149
5-9-2002
First published in 1985, Mary Douglas intended Risk and Acceptability as a review of the existing literature on the state of risk theory. Unsatisfied with the current studies of risk, which she found to be flawed by individualistic and psychologistic biases, she instead uses the book to argue risk analysis from an anthropological perspective. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415488501
25-2-2009
First published in 1973, Rules and Meanings is an anthology of works that form part of Mary Douglas' struggle to devise an anthropological modernism conducive to her opposition to reputedly modernizing trends in contemporary society. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415488525
25-2-2009
First published in 1984, This work is a cross-cultural study of the moral and social meaning of food. It is a collection of articles by Douglas and her colleagues covering the food system of the Oglala Sioux, the food habits of families in rural North Carolina, meal formats in an Italian-American community near Philadelphia. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415138253
26-9-1996
Every natural symbol - derived from blood, breath or excrement - carries a social meaning and this work focuses on the ways in which any one culture makes its selections from body symbolism. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415684781
24-7-2012
First published in 1986 Mary Douglas’ theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415606592
18-10-2010
First published in 1980, this book provides an overview of E. E. Evans-Pritchard's approach to anthropology. His seminal works on the Azande and the Nuer had an immense impact on the field in Britain. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415606660
18-10-2010
First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the grip/group analysis from Natural Symbols. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415606707
18-10-2010
First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of drinking. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415606721
19-10-2010
This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are early indications of Douglas's cultural imagination and written expression that were to make her works accessible and relevant to a western readership of non-anthropologists. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415606752
14-10-2010
First published in 1985, Mary Douglas intended Risk and Acceptability as a review of the existing literature on the state of risk theory. Unsatisfied with the current studies of risk, which she found to be flawed by individualistic and psychologistic biases, she instead uses the book to argue risk analysis from an anthropological perspective. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415330701
26-2-2004
Historians as well as anthropologists have contributed to this volume of studies on aspects of witchcraft in a variety of cultures and periods from Tudor England to twentieth-century Africa and New Guinea. Meer