Rules and meanings : the anthropology of everyday knowledge

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Rules and meanings : the anthropology of everyday knowledge

Mary Douglas

(Collected works / Mary Douglas, v. 4)

Routledge, 2009

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Reprint. Originally published by Routledge, 1973

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-302) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part One Tacit Conventions Part Two The Logical Basis of Constructed Reality Part Three Orientations in Time and Space Part Four Physical Nature Assigned to Classes and Held to Them by Rules Part Five The limits of Knowledge Part Six Interpenetration of Meanings Part Seven Provinces of Meaning Part Eight Formal Correspondences

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  • NCID
    BB15401684
  • ISBN
    • 9780415488501
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    319 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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