TY - BOOK AU - Douglas,Mary TI - Poverty as a Freedom Concern PY - 2007///. N1 - 13 N2 - This article presents a wide-ranging reflection on the roots of poverty through a systematic and radical deconstruction of the very idea of « traditional culture ». The traditional culture is not responsible for poorness – since « the » traditional culture does not exist, but within each culture four general tendancies (hierarchy, entrepreneurship, contestation and apathy), as shown by M. Douglas’ Theory of culture, quite renowned in anglo-saxon countries but here exposed for the first time in french. The article also deconstructsThe article also deconstructs the very notion of poverty UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-du-mauss-2007-2-page-438?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -