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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 application, rebuttal and development within anthropology. In 1995 the book was included among the Times Literary Supplement's hundred most influential non-fiction works since WWII.
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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo is a 1966 book by the anthropologist and cultural theorist Mary Douglas. It is her best known work. In 1991 the Times Literary Supplement listed it as one of the hundred most influential non-fiction books published since 1945.
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In her 1966 classic, Purity and Danger, author Mary Douglas questions the idea that objects or actions are unclean regardless of context. She proposes the opposite. By putting experiences into categories, such as dirty and pure, cultures can create order from an otherwise chaotic experience.
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Jan 31, 2016 · While significantly flawed from a theological perspective, this book is nonetheless very helpful in thinking through the purpose behind the Levitical purity laws. Mary Douglas was a renowned British anthropologist who focused on work in the area of cultural symbolism.
Sep 1, 2005 · Purity and Danger, first published in 1966, justly deserves its place as a classic, and the issuing of a new edition, together with a new self-critical preface, solidifies this position.
- Ronjon Paul Datta
Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas. Douglas says that in order to make sense of society, cultures like to group things. When objects fall outside those groups they are either reviled or revered. The great thing for me is that I could take her theory back to the ancient world and use it in my studies. It was so liberating.
Feb 8, 2023 · The main focus of the interview was her recently published book, Purity and Danger, which had already become a classic of British anthropology. The questions and answers ranged mainly over the differences between the physical body, representations of the body, the body as a classificatory system, and social constructivism.
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 ...
