Cultural Reader

De Saussure's linguistic theory led Claude Levi-Strauss , an anthropologist-structuralist who worked during the 20th century, to ident...

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo is a classic book by British anthropologist Mary Douglas, and is cons...

Mary Douglas's "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo" explores the cultural notion of dirt an...

Mary Douglas's " Purity and Danger " offers a  structuralis t  take on how cleanness and uncleanness serve as symbolic fun...

 Chapter 2 of Mary Douglas's " Purity and Danger ", titled "Secular Defilement" opens with a review of researcher...

In chapter 1 of her famous " Purity and Danger ", titled "Ritual Uncleanness",  structuralist  anthropologist Mary Do...