Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in

This new edition of a classic work provides an indispensable introduction to the thought of Mary Douglas.

Mary Douglas is a distinguished international anthropologist. She retired as Professor of Anthropology at University College London

Preface, 1999

vii

Preface, 1975

xi

PART I Essays on the implicit

1

(98)

Introduction

3

(5)

The Lele of the Kasai

8

(26)

Social and religious symbolism of the Lele

34

(13)

Animals in Lele religious symbolism

47

(16)

Techniques of sorcery control in Central Africa

63

(14)

Sorcery accusations unleashed

77

(18)

Looking back on the 1950s essays

95

(4)

PART 2 Critical essays

99

(98)

Introduction

101

(5)

Pollution

106

(10)

If the Dogon ...

116

(15)

The meaning of myth

131

(15)

Jokes

146

(19)

Do dogs laugh?

165

(5)

Couvade and menstruation

170

(10)

The healing rite

180

(8)

Obituary of Godfrey Lienhardt

188

(5)

Looking back on the 1960s essays

193

(4)

PART 3 Essays on the a priori

197

(117)

Introduction

199

(5)

Environments at risk

204

(14)

The depoliticisation of risk

218

(13)

Deciphering a meal

231

(21)

Self-evidence

252

(32)

Rightness of categories

284

(26)

Looking back on the 1970s essays

310

(4)

Index

314

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Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology

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