Rules and Meanings: The Anthropology of Everyday KnowledgeFirst published in 1973, Rules and Meanings is an anthology of works that form part of Mary Douglas' struggle to devise an anthropological modernism conducive to her opposition to reputedly modernizing trends in contemporary society. The collection contains works by Wittgenstein, Schutz, Husserl, Hertz and other continentals. The underlying themes of the anthology are the construction of meaning, the force of hidden background assumptions, tacit conventions and the power of spatial organization to reinforce words. The work serves to complement the philosophers' work on everyday language with the anthropologists' theory of everyday knowledge. |
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
Part | 15 |
H Garfinkel 1967 | 21 |
Part | 27 |
E E EvansPritchard 1949 | 38 |
J C Faris 1968 | 45 |
E Husserl 1929 and 1907 | 60 |
H Hesse 1943 | 240 |
S M Salim 1962 | 253 |
R Vailland 1957 | 266 |
Further Reading | 295 |
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