Taboo, Truth and Religion Revised Edition Contributor(s): Adler, Jeremy (Editor), Fardon, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1571817115 ISBN-13: 9781571817112 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1999 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Methodology |
Dewey: 306 |
LCCN: 99015631 |
Series: Taboo |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.10 lbs) 304 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough study of Steiner's unpublished papers, this edition for the first time places the book in its context and offers a new reading of the text. More than just a critique of existing taboo theories, as it has often been seen, this study offers a profound analysis of danger behavior and pollution in non-civilized societies. This provided an important starting-point for Mary Douglas' Purity and Danger. A key aspect of Steiner's achievement lies in his attempt to reconcile detailed, faithful ethnographic analysis with anthropological comparison. His analysis of taboo thus provides a case study with wide-ranging ramifications. This new edition makes a classic text available once again to students and general readers. A major new introduction based on archival research offers, for the first time, a biography and critical study of Franz Steiner; it not only places him in the context of British and European thought but also shows his importance for contemporary debates, among them deconstruction and Orientalism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Adler, Jeremy: - Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College London and specializes ininterdisciplinary subjects such as literature and science, poetry and painting, literature and anthropology. He is currently preparing a collected edition of Franz Steiner's poetry for theGerman Academy of Language and Literature, Darmstadt. Fardon, Richard: -Richard Fardon is Professor in West African Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and has intensively researched among Chamba-speaking people in Cameroon and Nigeria. He is currently completing an intellectual biography of Mary Douglas. |