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Purity and Danger

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

Purity and Danger

By Professor Mary Douglas

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About the book

In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate - from religion to social theory. But perhaps its most important role is to offer each reader a new explanation of why people behave in the way they do. Wit...Show more

Social and cultural anthropology

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ISBN

9781138127142

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2015

Language

Edition

1

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Purity and Danger

Format

Hardcover

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