Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

Mary Douglas with Sarah Sherbone (Narrator)

Audiobook edition 9h audio 1966

17 editions

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Is cleanliness next to godliness? What does such a concept really mean? Why does it recur as a universal theme across all societies? And what are the implications for the unclean? In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for puri...

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