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Taboo, Truth and Religion
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Taboo, Truth and Religion Paperback - 1999

by Jeremy Adler (Editor); Richard Fardon (Editor)

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  • Title Taboo, Truth and Religion
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berghahn Books, Incorporated, New York, NY
  • Date 1999-10-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 49779334-20
  • ISBN 9781571817129 / 1571817123
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.53 x 5.42 x 0.66 in (21.67 x 13.77 x 1.68 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99015631
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306

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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 In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough study of Steiner's unpublished papers, this edition for the first time places the book in its context and offers a new reading of the text.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.

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