Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
by Mary Douglas
Mary Douglas investigates how societies use concepts of purity and pollution to create and maintain social order and meaning.
About This Book
Purity and Danger examines the ways in which different cultures classify and respond to notions of cleanliness and contamination.
The book investigates the relationship between social structures and symbolic systems of order and disorder.
Mary Douglas analyzes how ideas about purity help maintain social boundaries and collective identity.
This Routledge Classics edition presents the influential study for contemporary readers.
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