1st Edition

In the Active Voice (Routledge Revivals)

By Mary Douglas Copyright 1982
322 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences. In opposition to this, the author seeks to assert an active voice style of thinking about the relations between individuals and their cultural environment, whether in economics, history or literary criticism. This... Read more

1. Passive Voice Theories in Religious Sociology  2. Goods as a System of Communication  3. Money  4. Food as a System of Communication  5. Good Taste: Review of Pierre Bourdieu, La Distinction  6. Population Control in Primitive Groups  7. Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong: A Study of Economic Backwardness  8. The Exclusion of Economics  9. Cultural Bias  10. Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945  11. Judgments on James Frazer  12. The Debate on the Holy: Review of The Making of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown

Biography

Mary Douglas