Purity and Danger Geoff Brammall students will acquire a high

students will acquire a high degree of proficiency

Author(s): Richard Arteca

reasoning and expressive language

and vocabulary in new contexts

Covering all major anatomical areas

Purity and Danger Geoff Brammall students will acquire a highIn Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate from religion to social theory. But perhaps its most important role is to offer each reader a new explanation