Fear and Conventionality

by Elsie Clews Parsons (Creator)

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Genres: Anthropology

280 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.