Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology

xxi, 325 pp. Implicit Meanings includes writings on the key themes which are associated with Mary Douglas's work and which have had a major influence on anthropological thought, such as: *food *pollution *risk *animals *myth. Among the new pieces included in this edition are: The Lele of the Kasai, Techniques of Socrcery, Control in Central Africa, The Lele Revisited, Obituary of Godfrey Lienhardt, The Depolitzation of Risk, and Rightness of Categories.