03339oam 2200709I 450 991080948220332120240131153411.01-136-72114-20-203-81629-31-299-14678-31-136-72115-010.4324/9780203816295 (CKB)2670000000326064(EBL)1123102(OCoLC)827207011(SSID)ssj0000852428(PQKBManifestationID)11481799(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000852428(PQKBWorkID)10852774(PQKB)11612474(MiAaPQ)EBC1123102(Au-PeEL)EBL1123102(CaPaEBR)ebr10656896(CaONFJC)MIL445928(OCoLC)844344459(OCoLC)1096311226(FINmELB)ELB134674(EXLCZ)99267000000032606420180706e20111982 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn the active voice /Mary DouglasAbingdon, Oxon ;New York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (319 p.)Routledge revivalsRoutledge revivals"First published in 1982 by Routledge"--T.p. verso.0-415-66873-5 0-415-66708-9 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 groups7 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 indexFirst 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 Routledge RevivalsEconomic anthropologyFood habitsEthnologyEconomic anthropology.Food habits.Ethnology.306.6Douglas Mary1921-2007.,81710MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809482203321In the active voice3940055UNINA