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Purity and Danger
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Professor Mary Douglas
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-17 - Publisher: Routledge

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Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of applicatio
Purity and Danger
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Mary Douglas
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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In this classic work Mary Douglas identifies the concern for pirity as a key theme at the heart of every society. She reveals its wide-ranging impact on our att
Purity and Danger
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Mary Douglas
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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Professor Douglas writes gracefully, lucidly and polemically. She continually makes points which illuminate matters in the philosophy of religion and the philos
Purity and Danger Now
Language: en
Pages: 443
Authors: Robbie Duschinsky
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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Mary Douglas’s seminal work Purity and Danger (Routledge, 1966) continues to be indispensable reading for both students and scholars today. Marking the 50th a
Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Rima L. Vesely-Flad
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-15 - Publisher: Fortress Press

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At the center of contemporary struggles over aggressive policing practices is an assumed association in U.S. culture of blackness with criminality. Rima L. Vese