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Book Title: Rules and Meanings (Mary Douglas Collected Works) Book Author: Mary Douglas (Author) Series: Collected Works Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Routledge (December 13, 2002) Language: English ISBN13: 9780415291149 ISBN10: 0415291143 Book Description Publication Date: December 13, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0415291143 | ISBN-13: 9780415291149 First published in 1973, Rules and Meanings is an anthology of works that form part of Mary Douglas' struggle to devise an anthropological modernism conducive to her opposition to reputedly modernizing trends in contemporary society. The collection contains works by Wittgenstein, Schutz, Husserl, Hertz and other continentals. The underlying themes of the anthology are the construction of meaning, the force of hidden background assumptions, tacit conventions and the power of spatial organization to reinforce words. The work serves to complement the philosophers' work on everyday language with the anthropologists' theory of everyday knowledge.  About the Author Dame Mary Douglas, DBE, FBA (25 March 1921 – 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, whose area of speciality was social anthropology. Douglas was considered a follower of Émile Durkheim and a proponent of structuralist analysis, with a strong interest in comparative religion. Sharing Widget |