基本説明
This collection brings thirteen essays on culture, not previously collected, from the last decade and a half of Mary Douglas's life.
Full Description
Written in the last two decades of her life, Cultures and Crises finds Mary Douglas developing analyses of critical conditions facing contemporary societies, sometimes in the company of distinguished co-authors across the whole gamut of social sciences.
The essays focus on the collaborative development of 'cultural theory' from the 'grid and group' analysis of the 1970s through to its application and elaboration in her later thought. The material covers questions of culture and institutions, the challenges to culture posed by climate change and the nature of risk in culture.
What emerges is the most complete picture of Mary Douglas's cultural theory that is currently available to us.
The book will add to the legions of Douglas's readers across the disciplinary divisions of the social sciences.
Mary Douglas was one of the most widely read social anthropologists of the 20th Century. She is celebrated both as a literary stylist and an anthropological thinker who challenged common presuppositions and understandings of religion, economy and society. As a cornerstone of modernism in social anthropology, and a precursor of 21st Century interdisciplinarity, her work remains highly influential both within and outside the social sciences.
Richard Fardon is Mary Douglas's Literary Executor and Head of the Doctoral School and Professor of West African Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, UK.
Contents
Introduction: How Cultures Precipitate Risk and Resolution - Richard Fardon
PART ONE: CULTURAL THEORY
The Language of Emotions in the Social Sciences
Emotion and Culture in Theories of Justice
Institutions: Problems of Theory
Four Cultures: The Evolution of a Parsimonious Model
PART TWO: CULTURE AND CLIMATE
Human Needs and Wants - with Des Gasper, Steven Ney and Michael Thompson
Is Time Running out? The Case of Global Warming - with Michael Thompson and Marco Verweij
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: The Case of Climate Change - with Marco Verweij et al
An Aesthetic View of the Relation between Culture and Nature
Postscript: The Future of Clumsiness - Christoph Engel, Michael Thompson and Marco Verweij
PART THREE: INSTITUTIONALIZED RISKS
The Risks of the Risk Officer
Dangerization and the End of Deviance: The Institutional Environment - with Michalis Lianos
Postscript - Michalis Lianos
Terrorism: A Positive Feedback Game - with Gerald Mars
Postscript - Gerald Mars
Being Fair to Hierarchists
Traditional Culture: Let's Hear no More about It
Endpiece: The Selfish Giant - Oscar Wilde
