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  • Are You My Friend?
    Mary Douglas-Witherspoon
    I’ve worked in corporate America as an administrative assistant at Chase Bank in New York City and as a police dispatcher for thirty years in Niagara Falls, New York. So, I’ve lived in the 'big city' and what would be seen as a 'small city.' I’ve worked with and for a diverse population-rich people, poor people, black people, white people, nice people, not-so-nice people old an...
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    5,86 €

  • The Best of Mary Diana Dods
    David Lyndsay / Mary Diana Dods / Walter Sholto Douglas
    Delve into the works and mystery of an LGBTQ+ author whom historians are still trying to unravel over 200 years later.Previously known only as a quiet but intelligent wallflower friend of renowned author Mary Shelley, Mary Diana Dods is far from an ordinary 1700s daughter of an Earl. Throughout their life, they lived under three identities. First was their birth name, Mary Dian...
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    11,08 €

  • The World of Goods
    Baron Isherwood / Mary Douglas
    A radical rethinking of consumerism, inequality and social capital, The World of Goods is a classic of economic anthropology whose insights remain compelling and urgent. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wilk. ...
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    29,99 €

  • Examining Biophilia and Societal Indifference to Environmental Protection
    Lonny Douglas Meinecke / Mary Ann Markey
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    216,04 €

  • Kidnapped Twice
    Douglas Winslow Cooper / Mary E Seaman
    'The Lovely Shall be Choosers' is the title of a Robert Frost poem that tells of the unhappy life of a woman born beautiful. Kidnapped Twice is a somewhat similar story, a memoir of a woman born both well-off and pretty, whose traumatic early life so shaped what came afterward that only her exceptional strength of character saved her. Now nearly bankrupt, living on a farm unde...
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    15,49 €

  • A Very Personal Method
    Mary Douglas
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    148,35 €

  • Cultures and Crises
    Mary Douglas / Richard Fardon
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    148,28 €

  • In the Active Voice (Routledge Revivals)
    Mary Douglas
    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. ...
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    76,96 €

  • More Stories for Christmas
    Kate Douglas Wiggin / Mary Stewart Cutting / Zona Gale
    Christmas is a time of joy, peace and contentment. Most of the stories in this book were written over a hundred years ago, but they are as fresh and relevant as if they were written yesterday.The first story in the book is entitled CHRISTMAS - A Story. Written by Zona Gale, it tells of a town that, because of financial hardship, almost missed Christmas.The Old Peabody Pew by ...
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    13,24 €

  • How Institutions Think (Routledge Revivals)
    Mary Douglas
    First published in 1986 Mary Douglas’ theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions. ...
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    77,71 €

  • The Lele of the Kasai
    Mary Douglas
    First published in 1963, this volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. ...
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    104,08 €

  • Evans-Pritchard
    Mary Douglas
    First published in 1980, this book provides an overview of E. E. Evans-Pritchard’s approach to anthropology. His seminal works on the Azande and the Nuer had an immense impact on the field in Britain. ...
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    88,54 €

  • Essays on the Sociology of Perception
    Mary Douglas
    First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas’ favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the grip/group analysis from Natural Symbols. ...
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    87,65 €

  • Constructive Drinking
    Mary Douglas
    First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking studies the functions drinking plays within society. A series of original case studies deal with a variety of exotic - not just alcohol - from a variety of cultural and geographical contexts. ...
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    104,10 €

  • Rules and Meanings
    Mary Douglas
    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 const...
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    87,79 €

  • Food in the Social Order
    Mary Douglas
    First published in 1984, This work is a cross-cultural study of the moral and social meaning of food. It is a collection of articles by Douglas and her colleagues covering the food system of the Oglala Sioux, the food habits of families in rural North Carolina, meal formats in an Italian-American community near Philadelphia. It also includes a grid/group analysis of food consu...
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    87,86 €

  • Across Greenland’s Ice Fields
    Mary Douglas
    Across Greenland�������s Ice Fields: The Adventures Of Nansen And Peary On The Great Ice Cap (1902) is a historical account of the expeditions undertaken by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen and American explorer Robert Peary in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book, written by Mary Douglas, details the challenges and triumphs of these two explorers as they traverse...
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    31,21 €

  • Robinetta
    Allan McAulay / Kate Douglas Wiggin / Mary And Jane Findlater
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,33 €

  • Jacob’s Tears
    Mary Douglas
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    74,94 €

  • Natural Symbols
    Mary Douglas / Professor Mary Douglas
    First published in 1970, this classic text represents a work of anthropology in its widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society. ...
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    29,97 €

  • Purity and Danger
    Mary Douglas
    With a specially commissioned preface by the author which assesses the continuing significance of the work, this Routledge Classics edition will ensure that Purity and Danger continues to challenge, question and inspire for many years to come. ...
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    37,93 €

  • Leviticus as Literature
    Mary Douglas
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    75,71 €

  • Geriatric
    Douglas Taren / Mary Marian / Stephen Bartlett
    The older population, defined as those 65 years and older, has been steadily increasing as a percentage of the total population since 1900. Currently, it constitutes 13% of the population. The United States Bureau of the Census predicts that the elderly will represent 20% of the U.S. population by 2030. The older population itself is getting older, wi...
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    134,32 €

  • Risk and Blame
    Professor Mary Douglas
    Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society.In this collection of recent essays, Ma...
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    94,69 €