Purity and Danger

出版者:Routledge

作者:Mary Douglas

页数:272

出版时间:2002-11-17

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780415289955

丛书系列:Routledge Classics

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Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the war, she formed part of the group of anthropologists who established social anthropology's standing in the world of scholarship. Her works, spanning the second half of the twentieth century, have been widely read and her theories applied across the social sciences and humanities.

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Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the war, she formed part of the group of anthropologists who established social anthropology's standing in the world of scholarship. Her works, spanning the second half of the twentieth century, have been widely read and her theories applied across the social sciences and humanities.

读后感

通过介绍对此书非常感兴趣,可以售价差不多80RMB,的确厉害,让我不敢轻易出手.因为我在卓越买4-5本书才到这个金额. 果然这里的文化不值钱. 可能外文的书籍入口关税比较厉害吧. 体制内的书籍难以满足现在的人了.  

开卷八分钟：英国女爵士的“肮脏”观2007年06月25日 08:55 【大 中 小】 相关标签 [梁文道] [开卷八分钟] 最近人们常常想到禁忌，什么叫禁忌？一个社会为什么会有那么多的禁忌？禁忌有没有什么独特的功能呢？ 比如说脏的禁忌，像这双鞋子，本身是谈不上脏或不脏的，尤...  

用户评价

开启了很多重要的问题，特别是ambiguity，及其与符号诊断和文化表演的关系，但是论述的较为肤浅，也通俗易懂。

看的电子版 主要是用来核对中文版有无出错的……事实证明中文翻得不错！

关于purity是分类秩序、污秽与disorder关联的诸论述，以宗教洁净作为保守、秩序之最有力途径云云，都颇有意义。处理ambiguity和taboo、对danger与power关系讨论两章是个人比较喜欢的。02版多了一个新intro批判自己对利未记饮食禁忌的解读，重要。

看的电子版 主要是用来核对中文版有无出错的……事实证明中文翻得不错！

“Separating, purifying, demarcating and punishing transgressions have as their main function to impose system on an inherently untidy experience. It is only by exaggerating the difference between within and without, about and below, male and female, with and against, that a semblance of order is created.” (Introduction, P.4)