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Rules and Meanings 1st Edition

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Full Title

Rules and Meanings 1st Edition

Author(s)

Mary Douglas

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781136489839, 9780415291071, 9781315015835, 9781136489761, 9781136489907, 9780415488501

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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 construction of meaning, the force of hidden background assumptions, tacit conventions and the power of spatial organization to reinforce words. The work serves to complement the philosophers’ work on everyday language with the anthropologists’ theory of everyday knowledge.