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Analysis Of Purity And Danger By Mary Douglas

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The book “Purity and Danger” written by Mary Douglas was first published in 1966. Mary Douglas was a British anthropologist recognized for her studies on social anthropology with focus on religion and symbolism. She developed fieldwork in a highly pollution-conscious culture of the Congo and started to look for a systemic approach. In Purity and Danger she analysed the ideas of pollution and taboo, considering different cultures from a structural point of view and with some influence from Gestalt psychology. Her purpose was to avoid a limited explanation, regarding the phenomena in relation to the whole social
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