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1	Purity and danger: an analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist 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. Incorporating the ... see all copies from $4.15! new only from $14.52! \| SVS
2	Leviticus as Literature more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world-renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the desert tabernacle, which in turn corresponds to the parts of ... see all copies from $40.08! new only from $40.08! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas, Aaron Wildavsky add to wishlist "Offering what they call a 'cultural theory of risk perception,' the authors suggest that peoples' complaints about hazards should never be taken at face value. One must look further to discover what forms of social organization are being defended or attacked." see all copies from $11.00! new only from $23.50! \| SVS
4	Purity and Danger more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! first editions
5	Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist Who is Israel? Who were the priestly authors of the Pentateuch? This anthropological reading of the Bible, by a world-renowned scholar, starts by asking why the Book of Numbers lists the twelve tribes of Israel seven times. Mary Douglas argues that the editors, far from being a separate elite unconcerned with their congregation's troubles, ... see all copies from $23.82! new only from $23.82!
6	The world of goods more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist see all copies from $9.99! first editions
7	Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of drinking. The three constructive functions are: that drinking has a real social role in everyday life; that drinking can be used to construct an ideal world; and that drinking is a significant economic ... see all copies from $85.00! new only from $262.27! \| first editions
8	Natural Symbols more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist First printed in 1970, Natural Symbols is Douglas' most controversial work. It represents a work of anthropology in its widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society. This work focuses on the ways in which cultures select natural symbols from the body and how every natural symbol ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $175.27! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Healing Arts: The History of Art Therapy more books like this by Susan Hogan, Professor Mary Douglas (Foreword by), Mr. David Lomas (Foreword by) add to wishlist The phrase art therapy was first coined in 1942, the author of this book traces its origins back to the latter part of the 18th century, when working with images was used as a moral treatment, charting its development up to 1966. This text charts the development of art therapy up to 1966 and looks towards the uncertain future. It covers the ... see all copies from $47.34! new only from $47.34! \| SVS
10	Witchcraft Confessions & Accusations more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist Historians as well as anthropologists have contributed to this volume of studies on aspects of witchcraft in a variety of cultures and periods from Tudor England to twentieth-century Africa and New Guinea. Contributors include: Mary Douglas, Norman Cohn, Peter Brown, Keith Thomas, Alan Macfarlane, Alison Redmayne, R.G. Willis, Edwin Ardener, ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $210.06! \| first editions
11	Missing Persons: A Critique of the Personhood in the Social Sciences more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas, Steven Ney add to wishlist The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a personal experience, a deprivation of material things, and a failure of just distribution. Mary Douglas and Steven Ney find this dominant tradition of social thought about poverty and well-being to be full of ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $4.00! \| first editions
12	Entertaining with Longaberger: Celebrating the Seasons more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13	How Institutions Think more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist see all copies from $13.97! new only from $14.50! \| SVS
14	Across Greenland's Ice Fields: The Adventures of Nansen and Peary on the Great Ice Cap (1902) by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist see all copies from $17.65! new only from $17.65! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Edward Evans-Pritchard more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist First published in 1980, this book provides an overview of E. E. Evans-Pritchard's approach to anthropology. His seminal works on the Azande and the Nuer had an immense impact on the field in Britain. He wrote these works in his thirties and forties, after which time he became chair of anthropology at Oxford. His pupils and colleagues from his ... see all copies from $3.39! new only from $183.98! \| first editions
16 view cover	In the Wilderness: The Doctrine of Defilement in the Book of Numbers more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist In the Wilderness is a classic work on the anthropology of the Book of Numbers. Up to now Bible scholars have tended to dismiss Numbers - Wellhausen called it the junk room of the Bible, and most contemporary commentaries feel called upon to say something about its apparent lack of coherence. In this book Mary Douglas argues that Numbers is ... see all copies from $31.99! new only from $45.58! \| SVS
17 view cover	Thought Styles: Critical Essays on Good Taste more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $20.00! new only from $40.00!
18 view cover	Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist This new edition of a classic work provides an excellent introduction to the thought of Mary Douglas. First published to great acclaim in 1975, Mary Douglas has now revised the text to include additional chapters and a new introduction. Implicit Meanings includes writing on the key themes which are associated with Mary Douglas's work and which ... see all copies from $12.74! new only from $40.76! \| SVS
19 view cover	Food in the Social Order: Studies of Food and Festivities in Three American Communities more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist First published in 1984, This work is a cross-cultural study of the moral and social meaning of food. It is a collection of articles by Douglas and her colleagues covering the food system of the Oglala Sioux, the food habits of families in rural North Carolina, meal formats in an Italian-American community near Philadelphia. It also includes a ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $288.36!
20 view cover	Essays in the sociology of perception more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the grip/group analysis from Natural Symbols . The essays have been important texts for preparing grid/group exercises ever since. She is still trying to improve the argument of Natural Symbols and is ... see all copies from $25.58! new only from $210.06! \| first editions
21	Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist see all copies from $4.99! first editions
22 view cover	Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a technique which places the meaning of a text in the middle, framed by a beginning and ending in parallel ... see all copies from $24.50! new only from $24.50! \| first editions
23 view cover	Risk Acceptability According to the Social Sciences more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist First published in 1985, Mary Douglas intended Risk and Acceptability as a review of the existing literature on the state of risk theory. Unsatisfied with the current studies of risk, which she found to be flawed by individualistic and psychologistic biases, she instead uses the book to argue risk analysis from an anthropological perspective. ... see all copies from $6.58! new only from $11.61!
24 view cover	Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, this text took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times. Instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, the author claimed that if transformation were needed, it could only be made possible through better understanding. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.97! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas, Douglas Profess, Profess Douglas add to wishlist This collection builds on the program for studying risk and blame that was implied in "Purity and Danger" and expanded in subsequent publications. The first six essays argue that any analysis of risk perception that ignores cultural and political bias is worthless. For the sake of a mistaken idea of objectivity, research on risk perception tries ... see all copies from $35.00! new only from $42.10! \| SVS

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