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Purity and danger : an analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo

Title
Purity and danger : an analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo / Mary Douglas.
Author
Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007.
Publication
London [England] : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980, ©1966.

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Description
viii, 188 pages; 21 cm
Subject
  • Taboo
  • Purity, Ritual
  • Taboo
  • Tabou
  • Pureté rituelle
  • taboo
  • Wertordnung
  • Reinlichkeit
  • Ritual
  • Religiao (Antropologia/Sociologia)
  • Anthropology, Cultural
  • Culture > history
Note
  • Second impressions with corrections, 1969.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-185) and index.
Contents
Ritual uncleanness -- Secular defilement -- The abominations of Leviticus -- Magic and Miracle -- Primitive worlds -- Powers and dangers -- External boundaries -- Internal lines -- The system at war with itself -- The system shattered and renewed.
ISBN
  • 0710088272
  • 9780710088277
OCLC
  • ocm07661612
  • 7661612
  • SCSB-4674495
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries