P urity and D anger
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22368366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Perri Six (Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author), Perri (0000-0002-9767-5973) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1343 |
| OpenAlex | W3082079399 |
| ISBN | 9781118924396 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Among anthropologists, Purity and Danger is Mary Douglas's best‐known work, yet it is widely misunderstood. Its significance was in laying out a Durkheimian program for social science, in showing why understanding anomaly is methodologically critical, and in exploring ritual order as a causal mechanism. Douglas came to appreciate that the book had not carried her program through. Much of her subsequent work should be appreciated for having recast Purity and Danger 's core arguments in more rigorous and coherent ways, as she developed the distinctive theory of conflict amplification and containment which she recognized that Purity and Danger needed
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |