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Language: en
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-17 - Publisher: Routledge
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
Language: en
Pages: 193
Pages: 193
Type: BOOK - Published: 1966 - Publisher: Burns & Oates
Is cleanliness next to godliness? What does such a concept really mean? Why does it recur as a universal theme across all societies? And what are the implicatio
Language: en
Pages: 443
Pages: 443
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-12 - Publisher: Routledge
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
Language: en
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-17 - Publisher: Routledge
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
Language: en
Pages: 299
Pages: 299
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Offering a new and controversial interpretation of Leviticus this book sets out an anthropological perspective on the Jewish purity laws.