Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology

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		Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology
		Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology

基本信息·出版社：Routledge
·页码：240 页
·出版日期：2003年09月
·ISBN：0415314542
·条形码：9780415314541
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：自然象征

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First published in 1970, this classic text represents a work of anthropology in its widest sense, eploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society.
Bringing anthropology into the realm of religion,Natural Symbolsenters into the ongoing debate in religious circles surrounding meaning and ritual. Written against the backdrop of student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervor of the times, but instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, Mary Douglas saw instead that if transformation were needed, it could only be made possible through better understanding. Expressed with clarity and dynamism, the passionate analysis which follows from this remains one of the most insightful and rewarding studies of human behavior that has been written.
作者简介 Mary Douglas is a distinguished international anthropologist. She retired as professor of Anthropology at University College London in 1977, and taught in America until 1988. Her books include Purity and Danger (1966), published as a Routledge Classic (Sept 2002), Essays in the Sociology of Perception (1982), How Institutions Think (1986) and Risk and Blame (1992).
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'Natural Symbols is clearly a major work in the greatest of sociological traditions, the Durkheimian. It has an originality unmatched for a generation among the writings of anthropologists. It raises questions that are important and soluble not in the field but by the harder, less inviting, work of reflection and analysis.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Natural Symbols remains the book most important to understanding Mary Douglas's thought, and this fact places it amongst the most significant books of theory written by anthropologists during the twentieth century.' - Richard Fardon, SOAS

'As timeless as the subtitle. Essential reading for all those enthralled by her brilliant insights into the meaning of the Bible thirty years on.' - John Sawyer, Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University

'Mary Douglas's writing remains as fresh and vivid as ever. The ideas put forward in Natural Symbols have been taken up well beyond the discipline of anthropology, and should remain compulsory reading for all students of religion and society.' - Fiona Bowie, University of Bristol

It has an originality unmatched for a generation among the writings of anthropologists. - Times Literary Supplement

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