By Mary Douglas
ISBN-10: 0415138256
ISBN-13: 9780415138253
Natural Symbols is a booklet approximately faith and it matters our personal society no less than up to the other. It has encouraged new insights into non secular and political activities and has provoked re-appraisals of present innovative orthodoxies in lots of fields. As a vintage, it represents a piece of anthropology in its widest feel, exploring issues akin to the social which means of normal symbols and identical to the physique in society that are now a great deal fashionable in anthropology, sociology and cultural studies.
In this reissue and with a brand new creation, Natural Symbols will proceed to attract all scholars of anthropology, sociology and religion.
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