Purity and danger : an analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo
"This remarkable book, which is written in a very graceful, lucid and polemical style, is a symbolic interpretation of the rules of purity and pollution. Mary Douglas shows that to examine what is considered as unclean in any culture is to take a looking-glass approach to the ordered patterning which that culture strives to establish. Such an approach affords a universal understanding of the rules of purity which applies equally to secular and religious life and equally to primitive and modern societies."--Half title page
Print Book, English, 1996, ©1966
Routledge, London, 1996, ©1966