ANTHROP 2R03 Lecture Notes - Horse Meat, Mary Douglas, Social Anthropology
4 Apr 2013
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Major theoretical contributions: pollution theory thought and social control ( grid-and-group theory) embodiment theory social anthropology of modern, urban society risk theory. Point of culture: create categories of perception stems from a universal drive to categorize. Douglas" work based on the essentials of the social nature of perception: nature is. We have to learn the categories of the society we live in learn how to categorize the world. Differences between our self and the world self postulate. I am separate from the world around me learn to be freaked out by things that challenge the self postulate. Unable to perceive things that challenge the self-postulate are gross, annoying the social person is a construct. One girl, one boy twins dress girl in pink, boy in blue. Nuer in southern sudan there is nothing inherent about blue/pink. Sees multiple births as an animalistic characteristic.
