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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809482203321

Autore

Douglas Mary <1921-2007., >

Titolo

In the active voice / / Mary Douglas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-72114-2

0-203-81629-3

1-299-14678-3

1-136-72115-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Disciplina

306.6

Soggetti

Economic anthropology

Food habits

Ethnology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1982 by Routledge"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; In the Active Voice; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Passive voice theories in religious sociology; 2 Goods as a system of communication; 3 Money; The contempt of ritual; Raffia cloth distribution in the Lele economy; Primitive rationing; 4 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; 5 Good taste: review of Pierre Bourdieu, La Distinction; 6 Population control in primitive groups

7 Lele economy compared with the Bushong: a study of economic backwardness8 The exclusion of economics; 9 Cultural bias; 10 Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945; 11 Judgments on James Frazer; 12 The debate on the Holy: review of The Making of Late Antiquity; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences. In opposition to this, the author seeks to assert an active voice style of thinking about the relations between individuals and their cultural environment, whether in economics, history or literary criticism.This collection is assembled with the



guiding principle that all the essays touch upon the borderland between economic values and personal judgements of quality. Several essays illustrate the theme from