Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology

✍ Scribed by Mary Douglas

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 355
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This new edition of a classic work provides an excellent introduction to the thought of anthropologist Mary Douglas. First published to great acclaim in 1975, Mary Douglas has now revised the text to include additional chapters and a new introduction.Implicit Meanings includes writings on the key themes which are associated with Mary Douglas's work and which have had a major influence on anthropological thought, such as: food pollution risk animals *myth. Among the new pieces inluded in this edition are: The Lele of the Kasai * Techniques of Socrcery Control in Central Africa * The Lele Revisited * Obituary of Godfrey Lienhardt * The Depolitzation of Risk * Rightness of Categories

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