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Author | Mary Douglas |
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Language | English |
Subject | Social anthropology |
Publisher | Routledge and Kegan Paul |
Publication date | 1966 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Pages | 196 pp. |
ISBN | 0-7100-1299-3 |
OCLC | 50333732 |
Preceded by | The Lele of the Kasai |
Followed by | Natural Symbols |
Part of a series on |
Anthropology of religion |
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Social and cultural anthropology |
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo is a 1966 book by the anthropologist and cultural theorist Mary Douglas. It is her best known work. In 1991 the Times Literary Supplement listed it as one of the hundred most influential non-fiction books published since 1945.