A very personal method anthropological writings drawn from life - Douglas, Mary 1921-2007; Fardon, Richard (London SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013)
A Feeling for Hierarchy -- Hooked on Fishing - Gilbert Tew, 1884-1951 -- The Gender of the Trout -- My Circus Fieldwork ; The Lele of the Congo -- The problem of evil among the Lele: sorcery, witch-hunt and Christian teaching in Africa -- The devil vanishes -- Other beings, post-colonially correct -- The cloud God and the shadow self ; Taboo -- The contempt of ritual -- The contempt of ritual [again] ; On Franz Steiner: a memoir -- On E. E. Evans-Prichard: from the tablet notebook -- On Levi-Strauss - wild pansies: speaking tenderly of its layered puff pastry effect -- Smothering the differences: in a savage mind about Levi-Strauss -- On Clifford Geertz: the self-completing animal ; Knowing the code -- A course off the menu -- To honour the dead -- The oracles of love - A Play for AKT -- Sacraments and Society - An Anthropologist Asks What Women Could Be Doing in the church -- Can a scientist be objective about her faith? In conversation with Deborah Jones ; Original minds: Mary Douglas in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel -- Granny ; The golden fish (the Brothers Grimm).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Douglas, Mary -- 1921-2007.; Ethnomethodology