Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

✍ Scribed by Mary Douglas

• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 203
• Edition: Reprint
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Douglas offers an approach to understanding rules of purity by examining what is considered unclean in various cultures. She sheds light on the symbolism of what is considered clean and dirty in relation to order in secular and religious, modern and primitive life.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
1. Ritual Uncleanness......Page 16
2. Secular Defilement......Page 39
3. The Abominations of Leviticus......Page 51
4. Magic and Miracle......Page 68
5. Primitive Worlds......Page 83
6. Powers and Dangers......Page 104
7. External Boundaries......Page 124
8. Internal Lines......Page 139
9. The System at War with Itself......Page 150
10. The System Shattered and Renewed......Page 169
Bibliography......Page 190
Index......Page 196