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  • THE WORLD OF GOODS
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    THE WORLD OF GOODS
    MARY DOUGLAS / BARON ISHERWOOD
    It is well-understood that the consumption of goods plays an important, symbolic role in the way human beings communicate, create identity, and establish relationships. What is less well-known is that the pattern of their flow shapes society in fundamental ways. In this book the renowned anthropologist Mary Douglas and economist Baron Isherwood overturn arguments about consumpt...

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  • HUMANITARIAN WORK PSYCHOLOGY AND THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
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    HUMANITARIAN WORK PSYCHOLOGY AND THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
    ISHBEL MCWHA-HERMANN, DOUGLAS C. MAYNARD AND MARY O'NEILL BERRY
    In recent years, a new movement has emerged within organizational psychology, transposing the established principles of the field onto arenas of more pressing humanitarian need, including the humanitarian treatment of all workers in all work settings. Humanitarian Work Psychology (HWP) stretches the parameters of the discipline to focus on regions, communities, and groups of wo...

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  • FOOD IN THE SOCIAL ORDER
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    FOOD IN THE SOCIAL ORDER
    MARY DOUGLAS
    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 grid/group analysis of food consu...

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  • EVANS-PRITCHARD
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    EVANS-PRITCHARD
    MARY DOUGLAS
    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 days as the head of Institute of...

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  • CONSTRUCTIVE DRINKING
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    CONSTRUCTIVE DRINKING
    MARY DOUGLAS
    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 activity. The case studies dea...

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  • ESSAYS ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF PERCEPTION
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    ESSAYS ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF PERCEPTION
    MARY DOUGLAS
    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 always hoping to find better applicat...

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  • MAN IN AFRICA
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    MAN IN AFRICA
    DOUGLAS, MARY / KABERRY, PHYLLIS M.
    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 vol...

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  • PURITY AND DANGER
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    PURITY AND DANGER
    PROFESSOR MARY DOUGLAS / MARY DOUGLAS
    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 philosophy of religion and sci...

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  • THE LELE OF THE KASAI
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    THE LELE OF THE KASAI
    MARY DOUGLAS
    This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are early indications of Douglas's cultural imagination and written expression that were to make her works accessible and relevant to a western readership of non-anthropologists. The intellectural tools and examples she gained from Africanist e...

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  • RULES AND MEANINGS
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    RULES AND MEANINGS
    MARY DOUGLAS
    First published in 1973, Rules and Meanings is an anthology of works that form part of Mary Douglas' struggle to devise an anthropological modernism conducive to her opposition to reputedly modernizing trends in contemporary society. The collection contains works by Wittgenstein, Schutz, Husserl, Hertz and other continentals. The underlying themes of the anthology are the const...

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  • RISK AND ACCEPTABILITY
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    RISK AND ACCEPTABILITY
    MARY DOUGLAS
    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. Douglas raises questions about rati...

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  • WITCHCRAFT CONFESSIONS AND ACCUSATIONS
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    WITCHCRAFT CONFESSIONS AND ACCUSATIONS
    DOUGLAS, MARY
    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, Robert Brain, Julian Pitt-Rivers, Es...

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  • IN THE ACTIVE VOICE (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    IN THE ACTIVE VOICE (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    MARY DOUGLAS
    First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences. In opposition to this, the author seeks to assert an active voice style of thinking about the relations between individuals and their cultural environment, whether in economics, history or literary cri...

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  • NATURAL SYMBOLS
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    NATURAL SYMBOLS
    PROFESSOR MARY DOUGLAS / MARY DOUGLAS
    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 ...

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  • PURITY AND DANGER
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    PURITY AND DANGER
    MARY DOUGLAS
    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 implications for the unclean? In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its...

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  • NATURAL SYMBOLS
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    NATURAL SYMBOLS
    MARY DOUGLAS
    Every natural symbol - derived from blood, breath or excrement - carries a social meaning and this work focuses on the ways in which any one culture makes its selections from body symbolism. Each person treats their body as an image of society and the author examines the varieties of ritual and symbolic expression and the patterns of social ritual in which they are embodied. Na...

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  • RISK AND BLAME
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    RISK AND BLAME
    PROFESSOR MARY DOUGLAS
    Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society. In this collection of recent essays, M...

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  • IMPLICIT MEANINGS
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    IMPLICIT MEANINGS
    PROFESSOR MARY DOUGLAS
    Implicit Meanings was first published to great acclaim in 1975. It includes writings on the key themes which are associated with Mary Douglas' work and which have had a major influence on anthropological thought, such as food, pollution, risk, animals and myth. The papers in this text demonstrate the importance of seeking to understand beliefs and practices that are implicit an...

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