Archive for December, 2006

Meeting 18 Dec 06 - Natural Symbols

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

This meeting: Natural Symbols by Mary Douglas
Next Meeting: 3 January 2007, Cultural Theory by Thompson, Ellis, and Wildavsky
This week's reading was Natural Symbols by Mary Douglas. It forms the backbone of grid-group analysis, which was used to develop Cultural Theory.
Douglas' intention with the book was to develop a tool that could be [...]

First Meeting (Tue 12-12-2006)

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Starting up the blog

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

A reading group set up initially by the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization doctoral students to discuss cultural theory texts