Mary Douglas

A Very Personal Method

Anthropological Writings Drawn From Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Mary Douglas was one of the most regarded anthropologists of the 20th Century. This is a dynamic and very personal collection of her reflections upon anthropological and cultural method within the social sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications UK
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9781446254684
• ISBN-10: 1446254682
• Artikelnr.: 37271990

Autorenporträt

Mary Douglas¿s literary executor, Richard Fardon, is Professor of West African Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. A former student of Mary Douglas, his intellectual biography of her was published by Routledge in 1999, and updated by a Memoir in the Proceedings of the British Academy Memoir, 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: FAMILIAR FEELINGS
A Feeling for Hierarchy
Hooked on Fishing - Gilbert Tew, 1884-1951
The Gender of the Trout
My Circus Fieldwork
PART TWO: THINKING ABOUT CATHOLICISM IN LELE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
The Lele of the Congo
The Problem of Evil among the Lele: Sorcery, Witch-Hunt and Christian
Teaching in Africa
The Devil Vanishes
Other Beings, Post-Colonially Correct
The Cloud God and the Shadow Self
PART THREE: TABOO AND RITUAL
Taboo
The Contempt of Ritual
The Contempt of Ritual [Again]
PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARIES
On Franz Steiner: A Memoir
On E. E. Evans-Prichard: from t>On Lévi-Strauss - Wild Pansies: Speaking
Tenderly of its Layered Puff Pastry Effect
Smothering the Differences: In a Savage Mind About Lévi-Strauss
On Clifford Geertz: The Self-Completing Animal
PART FIVE: INCLUSION AS CONCLUSION
Knowing the Code
A Course off the Menu
To Honour the Dead
The Oracles of Love - A Play for AKT
Sacraments and Society - An Anthropologist Asks What Women Could Be Doing
in the Church
Can a Scientist Be Objective about Her Faith? In Conversation with Deborah
Jones
EPILOGUE
Original minds: Mary Douglas in Conversation with Eleanor Wachtel
Granny
Endpiece: The Golden Fish (the Brothers Grimm)