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Natural Symbols

Mary Douglas
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Big Man
Big Spirits
Bodily Dissociation
body as metaphor
Cargo Cult
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Colonial Freeze
cultural meaning systems
Divinity Flesh
Elaborated Codes
Elaborated Speech Code
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Friday Abstinence
godfrey
Good Life
grid
group grid model
lienhardt
mbuti
Millennial Movements
Natural Innocence
nuer
Nuer Prophets
Nuer Religion
Personal Control System
pygmies
religion
religious ritual analysis
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Restricted Speech Code
ritual symbolism
Small Scale Primitive Society
social anthropology theory
Social Structure
Social System
Speech Code
strong
Strong Grid
symbolic boundaries in society
Vice Versa
Witch Cleansing Movement
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415138253
  • Weight: 362g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Sep 1996
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

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.
Natural Symbols is a book about religion and it concerns our own society at least as much as any other. It has stimulated new insights into religious and political movements and has provoked re-appraisals of current progressive orthodoxies in many fields. As a classic, it represents a work of anthropology in its widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society which are now very much in vogue in anthropology, sociology and cultural studies.
In this reissue and with a new Introduction, Natural Symbols will continue to appeal to all students of anthropology, sociology and religion.
About Mary Douglas
Mary Douglas is a distinguished anthropologist. She retired as Professor of Anthropology at University College London in 1977, and taught in America until 1988. Her books include Purity and Danger (1966), Essays in the Sociology of Perception (1982), How Institutions Think (1986) and Risk and Blame (1992).

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