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Mary Douglas, natural symbols and gay marriage from magistra 139 days old
One of the most interesting ideas in Mary Douglas' 'How institutions think', about which I have been blogging intermittently, is her argument that institutions ...
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Mary Douglas on why discourses succeed from magistra 157 days old
As I said in a previous post, I've been trying to get to grips with Mary Douglas' 'How institutions think' and finding my usual problem with her stuff. ...
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Religious functionalism and homophobia from magistra 175 days old
A while ago, in a discussion over on A Corner of Tenth Century Europe on the anthropologist Mary Douglas, I mentioned that some of the ideas in her more ...
