Ebook: Purity and danger: an analysis of concept of pollution and taboo
Author: Douglas Professor Mary
- Tags: Pureté rituelle, Tabou, Purity Ritual, Taboo, Ressources Internet, Livres numériques, Pureté rituelle
- Series: Routledge classics
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Taylor and Francis
- City: London;New York
- Language: English
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"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. This 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. With a specially commissioned preface by the author which assesses the continuing significance of the work thirty-five years on, this Routledge Classics edition will ensure that Purity and Danger continues to challenge and question well into the new millenium."--Résumé de l'éditeur.