| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 306 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Routledge Revivals
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Routledge revivals.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences. In opposition to this, the author seeks to assert an active voice style of thinking about the relations between individuals and their cultural environment, whether in economics, history or literary criticism. This collection is assembled with the guiding principle that all the essays touch upon the borderland between economic values and personal judgements of quality. Several essays illustrate the theme from. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economic anthropology.
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Economic anthropology. |
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Food habits.
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Food habits. |
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Ethnology.
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Ethnology. |
| Indexed Term |
Cultural processes Economic aspects - Anthropological perspectives |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007. In the active voice. London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul, 1982 9780415667081 (DLC) 81018263 (OCoLC)7948115 |
| ISBN |
9781136721151 (electronic book) |
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1136721150 (electronic book) |
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071009065X |
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9780710090652 |
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