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Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a technique which places the meaning of a text in the middle, framed by a beginning and ending in parallel. To read a ring composition in the modern linear fashion is to misinterpret it, Douglas contends, and today's scholars must reevaluate important antique texts from around the world.Found in the Bible and in writings from as far afield as Egypt, China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, ring composition is too widespread to have come from a single source. Does it perhaps derive from the way the brain works? What is its function in social contexts? The author examines ring composition, its principles and functions, in a cross-cultural way. She focuses on ring composition in Homer's Iliad, the Bible's book of Numbers, and, for a challenging modern example, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, developing a persuasive argument for reconstruing famous books and rereading neglected ones.

82-3 --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Homer. --- Sterne, Laurence, --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Aʻdād (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ba-midbar (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bamidbar (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bamidbor (Book of the Old Testament) --- Be-midbar (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bemidbar (Book of the Old Testament) --- Kitāb-i Bi-mīdbār (Book of the Old Testament) --- Minsugi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Numbers (Book of the Old Testament) --- Numeri (Book of the Old Testament) --- Homer --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative --- Homer - Iliad --- Sterne, Laurence, - 1713-1768. - Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

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Who is Israel? Who were the priestly authors of the Pentateuch? This anthropological reading of the Bible starts by asking why the Book of Numbers lists the 12 tribes of Israel seven times.

Christianity. --- Bible. --- Authorship. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Political aspects. --- Israel, Ancient --- Politics and government. --- Christianity --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Religions --- Church history --- Chumash --- Five Books of Moses --- Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah --- Ḥumash --- Kitāb-i Muqqadas --- Mose Ogyŏng (Book of the Old Testament) --- Pentateuch --- Pi︠a︡toknizhīe Moiseevo --- Sefer Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah --- Tawrāh --- Torà (Pentateuch) --- Torah (Pentateuch) --- Tʻoris xutʻcigneuli --- Ureta --- תורה --- Haftarot --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Jews --- History --- Judaism

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Every natural symbol - derived from blood, breath or excrement - carries a social meaning and this work focuses on the ways in which any one culture makes its selections from body symbolism. Each person treats their body as an image of society and the author examines the varieties of ritual and symbolic expression and the patterns of social ritual in which they are embodied.Natural Symbols is a book about religion and it concerns our own society at least as much as any other. It has stimulated new insights into religious and political movements and has provoked re-appraisals of cu

Ethnology --- Religion and sociology. --- Human body --- Body, Human (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Religious aspects. --- CORPS HUMAIN --- RITUELS --- SYMBOLISME --- ASPECT RELIGIEUX --- MYTHOLOGIE

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First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the grip/group analysis from Natural Symbols. The essays have been important texts for preparing grid/group exercises ever since. She is still trying to improve the argument of Natural Symbols and is always hoping to find better applications to illustrate the power of the two dimensions used for accurate comparison.

Cognition and culture. --- Perception. --- Ethnopsychology --- Anthropology --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Supraliminal perception --- Cognition --- Apperception --- Senses and sensation --- Thought and thinking --- Culture and cognition --- Culture --- Ethnophilosophy --- Socialization --- Methodology.