Talk:Purity and Danger

I Changed the quote of Douglas for her rationale on changing her position. The earlier version made it sound far less academic than it actually was. My edit keeps the original idea intact, while still providing her explanation for why the animals were forbidden. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.169.230.20 (talk) 07:18, 8 October 2012 (UTC) =Leach or Douglas= It seems that Edmund Leach's (1964). Anthropological aspects of language: animal categories and verbal abuse, is similar (at least to the earlier theory that Douglas seems to be denying). I wonder which was first and the connection. Leach is really critical of Mary Douglas's later work. Timtak (talk) 02:20, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Publication history
I moved prose about its publication history from the lead to a designated section, for two reasons:

1) It listed dates of editions and reprints without citations and included an ISBN template tag for one edition, and 2) The presence of this language in the lead suggests to me (to whom the author's work is admittedly unknown) that it is notable!

So I did my best to research editions that would complement the rest, in part by being of different formats and in part because a single paperback edition is available to borrow via the Open Library. – spida-tarbell ❀ (talk) (contribs) 00:35, 3 November 2023 (UTC)