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Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam
Vietnam is currently undergoing a metamorphosis from a relatively closed society with a centrally planned economy, to a rapidly urbanising one with a global outlook....2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29689-2 (Routledge)
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I Am Dynamite
An Alternative Anthropology of Power
Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment...2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25863-0 (Routledge)
A Moral Critique of Development
In Search of Global Responsibilities
Recent critiques of international development practice, affecting aid organizations such as Oxfam, Action Aid and the Red Cross, have attacked the motives of those heading...2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27626-9 (Routledge)
The Dove in the Consulting Room
Hysteria and the Anima in Bollas and Jung
Psychoanalysis began as a treatment for hysteria over a century ago, and recently has returned to hysteria as a focus, most notably in the works...2003 | Paperback: 978-1-58391-259-1 (Routledge)
Cyberkids
Youth Identities and Communities in an On-line World
As Tony Blair has said, "Technology has revolutionised the way we work and is now set to transform education. Children cannot be effective in tomorrow's world...2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23059-9 (Routledge)
Purity and Danger
An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid...2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28995-5 (Routledge)
Mary Douglas
Collected Works
Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the second world war, she formed part of...2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45767-5 (Routledge)
The Lele of the Kasai
This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are...2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29104-0 (Routledge)
Purity and Danger
An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body...2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29105-7 (Routledge)
Rules and Meanings
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...2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29107-1 (Routledge)
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