Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, Paperback - Professor Mary Douglas

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This book analyses the biblical notions of purity and pollution as they relate to the body. It integrates psychological and anthropological insight...

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Few social historians had examined the popular religious beliefs of the 1500s at the time Thomas published Religion and the Decline of Magic in 197...

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Totem and Taboo by Sigmund FreudTotem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics, or Totem and Taboo: Some Points of...

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