anthropology ⁽³⁾

Writers on culture, society, and other outcomes of thw worlding urge

Mary Douglas – reading over three decades (substack) Mary Douglas: a negative gist (substack) Mary Douglas : a positive spin (substack) The lawyer and the doctor Risk, training, habit & inclination. Mary Douglas and narcissism. Not in that order. (substack) Douglas & Ney's 1998 'Missing Persons: A Critique of the Social Sciences' Part one — Missing institutions (substack) Part two…

Like the post Sister Wendy on love as an obedient art, this is mostly about the preface. Purity and Danger was originally published in 1966, a year after I was born. In Categories versus practices: moral leadership & teenagers running amok I briefly rail against the methodology of using categories as resolution for a 'digital scanner' of social realities (in…