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  • Purity and Danger

    An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

    by Professor Mary Douglas ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    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 wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate - from religion to social theory. But perhaps its most ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Purity and Danger

    An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

    by 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 science and a generally ... Read more

    $563.99 CAD

  • How Institutions Think

    by Mary Douglas ...
    Do institutions think? If so, how do they do it? Do they have minds of their own? If so, what thoughts occupy these suprapersonal minds? Mary Douglas delves into these questions as she lays the groundwork for a theory of institutions. Usually the human reasoning process is explained with a focus on the individual mind; her focus is on culture.Using the works of Emile Durkheim and Ludwik Fleck as a ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Far Away Bird

    by Douglas A Burton ...
    Narrated by Mary Sarah ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 50 min

    Inspired by true events, Far Away Bird delves into the complex mind of Byzantine Empress Theodora. This intimate account deftly follows her rise from actress-prostitute in Constantinople’s red-light district to the throne of the Byzantine Empire.Her salacious past has left historians blushing and uncomfortable. Tales of her shamelessness have survived for centuries, and yet her accomplishments as ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Natural Symbols

    Explorations in Cosmology

    by Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    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 ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Resilience through Knowledge Co-Production

    Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Marie Roué, Douglas Nakashima, Igor Krupnik ...
    Confronted with the complex environmental crises of the Anthropocene, scientists have moved towards an interdisciplinary approach to address challenges that are both social and ecological. Several arenas are now calling for co-production of new transdisciplinary knowledge by combining Indigenous knowledge and science. This book revisits epistemological debates on the notion of co-production and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations

    Edited by Mary Douglas ...
    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, Esther Goody, Peter ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Humanitarian Work Psychology and the Global Development Agenda

    Case studies and interventions

    Edited by Ishbel McWha-Hermann, Douglas C. Maynard, 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 workers that can ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Man in Africa

    Edited by Mary Douglas, Phyllis M. Kaberry ...
    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 volumes in total are ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Essays on the Sociology of Perception

    by 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 applications to illustrate ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Lele of the Kasai

    by 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 ethnography continue ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Food in the Social Order

    by 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 consumption. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD