Main description:
We are often tyrannized by cooking styles and dress fashions but the idea of thought styles in control is less familiar and perhaps more disturbing. But how do thought styles work? In these fascinating essays Mary Douglas brings the topic down to the commonplace judgements of everyday life.
Table of contents:
Introduction
The Uses of Vulgarity
A French Reading of Little Red Riding Hood
The Choice between Gross and Spiritual
Some Medical Preferences
Bad Taste in Furnishing
On Not Being Seen Dead
Shopping as Protest
The Consumer's Revolt
Anomalous Animals and Animal Metaphors
Classified as Edible
Prospects for Asceticism
The Cosmic Joke
We are often tyrannized by cooking styles and dress fashions but the idea of thought styles in control is less familiar and perhaps more disturbing. But how do thought styles work? In these fascinating essays Mary Douglas brings the topic down to the commonplace judgements of everyday life.
Table of contents:
Introduction
The Uses of Vulgarity
A French Reading of Little Red Riding Hood
The Choice between Gross and Spiritual
Some Medical Preferences
Bad Taste in Furnishing
On Not Being Seen Dead
Shopping as Protest
The Consumer's Revolt
Anomalous Animals and Animal Metaphors
Classified as Edible
Prospects for Asceticism
The Cosmic Joke