洁净与危险

简介

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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• 宗教生活的基本形式1912 · 埃米尔·涂尔干

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• 自然象征1970 · 玛丽·道格拉斯

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