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An Analysis of Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

An Analysis of Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

Belton, Pádraig

Paperback

Series: Macat Library

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1912284634
ISBN13: 9781912284634
Publisher: Macat Lib
Published: Feb 21 2018
Pages: 127
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments that portray traditional societies as evolving from savage beliefs in magic, to religion, to modern science, then explains why she believes those arguments are wrong. She also adeptly chaperones readers through a vast amount of data, from firsthand research in the Congo to close readings of the Old Testament, and analyzes it in depth to provide evidence that traditional and Western religions have more in common than the first comparative religion scholars and early anthropologists thought.

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