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Author Douglas, Mary Tew.

Title In the active voice / Mary Douglas.

Imprint London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul, 1982.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.3 D746i    ---  Available
Description xi, 306 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Passive voice theories in religious sociology -- Goods as a system of communication -- Money: The contempt of ritual ; Raffia cloth distribution in the Lele economy ; Primitive rationing -- Food as a system of communication: Food studied as a system of communication ; Food as an art form ; The Food Art Exhibition ; Food is not feed -- Good taste: review of Pierre Bourdieu, La distinction -- Population control in primitive groups -- Lele economy compared with the Bushong: a study of economic backwardness -- The exclusion of economics -- Cultural bias -- Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945 -- Judgments on James Frazer -- The debate on the Holy: review of The making of late antiquity / by P. Brown.
Subject Economic anthropology.
Food habits.
Ethnology.
ISBN 071009065X

 
    
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