TY  - BOOK
AU  - Douglas,Mary
TI  - Implicit meanings: selected essays in anthropology 
SN  - 0203159829
AV  - GN304 .D68 1999eb
U1  - 301 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - Anthropologie
KW  - social anthropology
KW  - aat
KW  - ethnology
KW  - anthropology
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Regional Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - gnd
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Culturele antropologie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Afrique
KW  - ram
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - essays
KW  - Essays
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Essais
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part PART 1 Essays on the implicit -- chapter Introduction 1975 -- chapter 1 The Lele of the Kasai -- chapter 2 Social and religious symbolism of the Lele -- chapter 3 Animals in Lele religious symbolism -- chapter 4 Techniques of sorcery control in Central Africa -- chapter 5 Sorcery accusations unleashed -- The Lele revisited, 1987 -- chapter 6 Looking back on the 1950s essays -- part PART 2 Critical essays -- chapter Introduction 1975 -- chapter 7 Pollution -- chapter 8 If the Dogon ... -- chapter 9 The meaning of myth -- chapter 10 Jokes -- chapter 11 Do dogs laugh? A cross-cultural approach to body symbolism -- chapter 12 Couvade and menstruation -- The relevance of tribal studies -- chapter 13 The healing rite -- chapter 14 Obituary of Godfrey Lienhardt -- chapter 15 Looking back on the 1960s essays -- part PART 3 Essays on the a priori -- chapter Introduction 1975 -- chapter 16 Environments at risk -- chapter 17 The depoliticisation of risk -- chapter 18 Deciphering a meal -- chapter 19 Self-evidence -- chapter 20 Rightness of categories -- chapter 21 Looking back on the 1970s essays
N2  - <EM>Implicit Meanings </EM>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 and a priori within what might seem to be alien cultures
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