Fear and Conventionality

by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons

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Genres: Anthropology

276 pages, Paperback

First published June 8, 1997

Reviews

[Noelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Parsons writes an ethnography of her own culture showing the universals human essences of fear and convention from around the world. Frustrating to read until the reader realizes that the hundreds of examples she gives don't matter at all.