Natural symbols : explorations in cosmology / Mary Douglas ; with a new introduction.

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Douglas, Mary

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (xxxvii, 183 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203036050
9780203036051
9780415138253
0415138256
9780415138260
0415138264
9786610331376
6610331375
1280331372
9781280331374
1134773749
9781134773749
1134773757
9781134773756
9781134773701
1134773706

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Natural symbols.DDC classification:

302.2/22 20

LOC classification:

BL604.B64 D68 1996eb

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Contents:

Chapter 1 Away from ritual -- chapter 2 To inner experience -- chapter 3 The Bog Irish -- chapter 4 Grid and group -- chapter 5 The two bodies -- chapter 6 Test cases -- chapter 7 The problem of evil -- chapter 8 Impersonal rules -- chapter 9 Control of symbols -- chapter 10 Out of the cave.

Summary: "There are no such things as natural symbols. Every culture naturalises a certain view of the human body to make it carry social meanings. This work focuses on how the selections from blood, bones, breath or excrement, are made. Body symbolism is always in service to social intentions, and the body cannot be endowed with universal meanings." "In this now classic work Mary Douglas shows how certain forms of social life bring forth regularly the same varieties of symbolic expression. Hierarchy treats the body as a hierarchy; sect treats it as a closed system; individualism treats it as pervasive energy. Political movements as well as religions have their rituals, medicine, ethics, educational theory, aesthetics, a huge range of judgements fall into line behind the standard cultural bias."--Jacket

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Originally published: 2nd ed. London : Barrie and Jenkins, 1973.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index.

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"There are no such things as natural symbols. Every culture naturalises a certain view of the human body to make it carry social meanings. This work focuses on how the selections from blood, bones, breath or excrement, are made. Body symbolism is always in service to social intentions, and the body cannot be endowed with universal meanings." "In this now classic work Mary Douglas shows how certain forms of social life bring forth regularly the same varieties of symbolic expression. Hierarchy treats the body as a hierarchy; sect treats it as a closed system; individualism treats it as pervasive energy. Political movements as well as religions have their rituals, medicine, ethics, educational theory, aesthetics, a huge range of judgements fall into line behind the standard cultural bias."--Jacket

English.

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