A perfect introduction to the story of the British monarchy for readers aged eight and over, including special features on Welsh and Scottish monarchs and a chronicle of important events around the world that occured during each monarch's reign.  Starting with the Saxon kings of the fifth century, the book travels chronologically through history exploring the achievements of consecutive monarchs, from King John's signing of Magna Carta in 1215 to Elizabeth II's stabilizing role as head of the Commonweath during a period when many countries were gaining their independence.

Kings and Queens of Britain

DOUGLAS, Mary

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

Edward Evans-Pritchard (Penguin modern masters)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Penguin??Books

Professor Douglas writes gracefully, lucidly and polemically. She continually makes points which illuminate matters in the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science and help to show the rest of us just why and how anthropology has become a fundamentally intellectual discipline' - New Society Professor Douglas' book sparkles with intellectual life and is characterised by a concern to understand. Right or wrong, sound or idiosyncratic, it presents a rare and exciting spectacle of a mind at work.' - Times Literary Supplement

Purity and danger: An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo (Pelican books)

Penguin

Shows the similar ways different cultures symbolize the structure of society in their attitudes toward the human body

Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology (Pelican)

Religion & Spirituality

Pelican

Natural symbols: explorations in cosmology

Harmondsworth. 1978. Penguin Books. 18x11. 218p.

Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology

Anthropology

This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the desert tabernacle, both corresponding to the parts of Mount Sinai. This completely new reading transforms the interpretation of the purity laws. The pig and other forbidden animals are not abhorrent, they command the same respect due to all God's creatures. Boldly challenging several traditions of Bible criticism, Mary Douglas claims that Leviticus is not the narrow doctrine of a crabbed professional priesthood but a powerful intellectual statement about a modern religion which emphasizes God's justice and compassion.

Leviticus As Literature

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

Who is Israel? Who were the priestly authors of the Pentateuch? This anthropological reading of the Bible, by a world-renowned scholar, starts by asking why the Book of Numbers lists the twelve tribes of Israel seven times. Mary Douglas argues that the editors, far from being a separate elite unconcerned with their congregation's troubles, cherished a political agenda, a religious protest against the government of Judah's exclusionary policies. The priestly theology depends on God's Covenant with all the descendants of Jacob, including the sons of Joseph. It would have been unpatriotic, even subversive, to speak against the wars with Samaria. This book suggest an explanation of the editors' disappearance from the history of Israel.

Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the desert tabernacle, both corresponding to the parts of Mount Sinai. This completely new reading transforms the interpretation of the purity laws. The pig and other forbidden animals are not abhorrent, they command the same respect due to all God's creatures. Boldly challenging several traditions of Bible criticism, Mary Douglas claims that Leviticus is not the narrow doctrine of a crabbed professional priesthood but a powerful intellectual statement about a modern religion which emphasizes God's justice and compassion.

Following on from the paperback edition of Leviticus as Literature, this is the revised paperback edition of Mary Douglas's classical account of the Book of Numbers. Up to now Bible scholars have tended to dismiss Numbers as a chaotic mix of narrative and laws. Mary Douglas argues that, like Leviticus, Numbers is actually a highly complex book arranged in a regular ring structure which plots the narratives and laws into 12 parts. She argues that it is only through an understanding of the ring formation of these parts that one can fully appreciate the meanings behind this complex work.

In the Wilderness: The Doctrine of Defilement in the Book of Numbers (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 158)

Judaism

Who is Israel? Who were the priestly authors of the Pentateuch? This anthropological reading of the Bible, by a world-renowned scholar, starts by asking why the Book of Numbers lists the twelve tribes of Israel seven times. Mary Douglas argues that the editors, far from being a separate elite unconcerned with their congregation's troubles, cherished a political agenda, a religious protest against the government of Judah's exclusionary policies. The priestly theology depends on God's Covenant with all the descendants of Jacob, including the sons of Joseph. It would have been unpatriotic, even subversive, to speak against the wars with Samaria. This book suggest an explanation of the editors' disappearance from the history of Israel.

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Kings and Queens of Britain

Edward Evans-Pritchard (Penguin modern masters)

Purity and danger: An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo (Pelican books)

Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology (Pelican)

Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology

Leviticus As Literature

Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation

Leviticus As Literature

In the Wilderness: The Doctrine of Defilement in the Book of Numbers (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 158)

Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation