Risk and Blame (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Mary Tew
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Cultural anthropology
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology, Anthropology
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Social reform, Politics, Religion, Economics, Anthropology or anthropologists, Social sciences
Mary Douglas is a cultural anthropologist whose work, like that of Claude Levi Strauss, has a provocative interdisciplinary appeal. Her scope in this set of collected articles is broad, her chapters vary wildly in subject matter, yet she brings a precise theory to bear in each case, such that it is more than a theme that runs through the book, it is a guiding principle. Furthermore, the structure of the argument is much the same in each case. A subject is chosen, preferably one that has not traditionally been seen as being in the purview of cultural anthropology, such as ecology,...
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