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Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology

By Mary Douglas

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
0415314542, 9780415314541
LCC
BL256 .D68 2003
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1840901 bytes)
Series
Routledge Classics
Edition
3rd
Pages
240\235
Time added
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One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times, but instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, Mary Douglas saw instead that if transformation were needed, it could only be made possible through better understanding. Expressed with clarity and dynamism, the passionate analysis which follows remains one of the most insightful and rewarding studies of human behaviour ever written.

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