Richard Fardon

Mary Douglas (eBook, ePUB)

An Intellectual Biography

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social anthropologist whose publications span the second half of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134953080
• Artikelnr.: 42827839

Autorenporträt

Richard Fardon is Professor of West African Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Beginnings: 1920s-1950s 1 'Memories of a Catholic girlhood': 1920s
and 1930s 2 Oxford years: 1940s 3 The Africanist: 1950s PART II Synthesis:
1960s 4 Purity and Danger revisited 5 Natural Symbols defended PART III
Excursions and adventures: 1970s-1990s 6 Rituals of consumption 7 Verbal
weapons and environments at risk 8 Returning to religion - in the
contemporary West 9 Returning to religion - in the Old Testament PART IV
Conserving anthropological modernism 10 Do institutions think? 11 The
secret consciousness of individuals and the consecrated society