Purity and danger; an analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo
"All religions have rules of purity whose neglect is punished by dangers of various kinds. The fashion of the last century was to take them for misguided systems of hygiene. Nowadays the anthropologists interpret them as symbolic statements and subtly trace th3 patterns of the symbols..."--From front cover
Print Book, English, [1966]
Routledge & Paul, London, [1966]