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Informationen zum Autor Mary Douglas's literary executor, Richard Fardon, is Professor of West African Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. A former student of Mary Douglas, his intellectual biography of her was published by Routledge in 1999, and updated by a Memoir in the Proceedings of the British Academy Memoir, 2010. Klappentext Mary Douglas was one of the most regarded anthropologists of the 20th Century. This is a dynamic and very personal collection of her reflections upon anthropological and cultural method within the social sciences. Zusammenfassung Mary Douglas was one of the most regarded anthropologists of the 20th Century. This is a dynamic and very personal collection of her reflections upon anthropological and cultural method within the social sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: FAMILIAR FEELINGS A Feeling for Hierarchy Hooked on Fishing - Gilbert Tew, 1884-1951 The Gender of the Trout My Circus Fieldwork PART TWO: THINKING ABOUT CATHOLICISM IN LELE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE The Lele of the Congo The Problem of Evil among the Lele: Sorcery, Witch-Hunt and Christian Teaching in Africa The Devil Vanishes Other Beings, Post-Colonially Correct The Cloud God and the Shadow Self PART THREE: TABOO AND RITUAL Taboo The Contempt of Ritual The Contempt of Ritual [Again] PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARIES On Franz Steiner: A Memoir On E. E. Evans-Prichard: from t >On Lévi-Strauss - Wild Pansies: Speaking Tenderly of its Layered Puff Pastry Effect Smothering the Differences: In a Savage Mind About Lévi-Strauss On Clifford Geertz: The Self-Completing Animal PART FIVE: INCLUSION AS CONCLUSION Knowing the Code A Course off the Menu To Honour the Dead The Oracles of Love - A Play for AKT Sacraments and Society - An Anthropologist Asks What Women Could Be Doing in the Church Can a Scientist Be Objective about Her Faith? In Conversation with Deborah Jones EPILOGUE Original minds: Mary Douglas in Conversation with Eleanor Wachtel Granny Endpiece: The Golden Fish (the Brothers Grimm) ...
