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In the active voice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Douglas, Mary
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul, 1982.
Subjects:
Economic anthropology.
Food habits.
Ethnology.
Table of Contents:
  • Passive voice theories in religious sociology
  • Goods as a system of communication
  • Money: The contempt of ritual ; Raffia cloth distribution in the Lele economy ; Primitive rationing
  • Food as a system of communication: Food studied as a system of communication ; Food as an art form ; The Food Art Exhibition ; Food is not feed
  • Good taste: review of Pierre Bourdieu, La distinction
  • Population control in primitive groups
  • Lele economy compared with the Bushong: a study of economic backwardness
  • The exclusion of economics
  • Cultural bias
  • Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945
  • Judgements on James Frazer
  • The debate on the Holy: review of The making of late antiquity / by Peter Brown.