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Purity and Danger - Monoskop
Purity and Danger This remarkable book, which is written in a very graceful, lucid and polemical style, is a symbolic interpretation of the rules of Purity and pollution. Mary Douglas shows that to examine what is considered as unclean in any culture is to take a looking-glass approach to the ordered patterning which that culture strives to establish. Such an approach affords a universal understanding of the rules of Purity which applies equally to secular and religious life and equally to primitive and modern societies. M A RY D O U G L A S. Purity and Danger A N A N A LY S I S. OF THE CONCEPTS OF. P O L L U T I O N A N D TA B O O. LONDON AND NEW YORK. First published in 1966. ARK Edition 1984. ARK PAPERBACKS is an imprint of Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001. Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.
The place of this book in anthropology is like the invention of the frameless chassis in the history of car-design. When the chassis and the body of the car were designed separately the two were held together on a central steel frame. In the same way political theory used to take the organs
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