TY - BOOK ID - 135646079 TI - In the active voice PY - 1982 SN - 1136721142 0203816293 1299146783 1136721150 9781136721151 071009065X 9780710090652 PB - London Boston Routledge & K. Paul DB - UniCat KW - Economic anthropology. KW - Food habits. KW - Ethnology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135646079 AB - First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences. In opposition to this, the author seeks to assert an active voice style of thinking about the relations between individuals and their cultural environment, whether in economics, history or literary criticism.This collection is assembled with the guiding principle that all the essays touch upon the borderland between economic values and personal judgements of quality. Several essays illustrate the theme from ER -