النقاء والخطر: تحليل لمفاهيم التدنيس والمحرّم (Purity and Danger)

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Purity and Danger appeared in 1966 and grew out of lectures from the late 1950s, among them a lecture at University College London on “the abominations of Leviticus”. Douglas starts from Lord Chesterfield’s phrase that dirt is “matter out of place” and argues that rules of purity are neither primitive hygiene nor mere superstition but ways of keeping experience in order. Chapters on the dietary laws of Leviticus 11, on the Lele, whose pangolin cult honours an anomalous animal, and on beliefs about the margins of the body develop the claim that the body can stand for any bounded system. The book became a classic far beyond anthropology, with readers in religious studies, literary theory and philosophy, among them Kristeva and Butler.

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• الأشكال الأولية للحياة الدينية1912 · إميل دوركايم

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• رموز طبيعية: استكشافات في الكوزمولوجيا (Natural Symbols)1970 · ماري دوغلاس

مزيد من أعمال ماري دوغلاس

• 1970رموز طبيعية: استكشافات في الكوزمولوجيا (Natural Symbols)