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Rules and Meanings

Rules and Meanings

Paperback

Series: Mary Douglas Collected Works

AnthropologyArchaeologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415488508
ISBN13: 9780415488501
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 25 2009
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

First published in 1973, Rules and Meanings is an anthology of works that form part of Mary Douglas' struggle to devise an anthropological modernism conducive to her opposition to reputedly modernizing trends in contemporary society. The collection contains works by Wittgenstein, Schutz, Husserl, Hertz and other continentals. The underlying themes of the anthology are the construction of meaning, the force of hidden background assumptions, tacit conventions and the power of spatial organization to reinforce words. The work serves to complement the philosophers' work on everyday language with the anthropologists' theory of everyday knowledge.

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