Mary Douglas
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| Gender | Female |
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| Death | 17 years ago |
| Date of birth | March 25,1921 |
| March 25,1921 | |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Aries | |
| Date of died | May 16,2007 |
| Died | London |
| United Kingdom | |
| Spouse | James Douglas |
| Job | Anthropologist |
| Writer | |
| Education | University of Oxford |
| St Anne's College, Oxford | |
| Institut | University College |
| Awards | FBA |
| Known for | Purity and Danger |
| Natural Symbols | |
| Cultural theory of risk | |
| Born | Sanremo |
| Italy | |
| Influenc | David Bloor |
| Steve Rayner | |
| Peter Brown | |
| Parents | Gilbert Tew |
| Phyllis Margaret Twomey | |
| Interests | Anthropology |
| Culture | |
| Risk | |
| STS | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 534071 |
Implicit Meanings
Risk and Blame
The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption
Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers
Leviticus as Literature
Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition
The Lele of the Kasai
Rules and Meanings
Mary Douglas: Collected Works
Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology
Risk Acceptability According to the Social Sciences
Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation
In the Wilderness: The Doctrine of Defilement in the Book of Numbers
In the active voice
Essays in the Sociology of Perception
Missing persons
A Very Personal Method: Anthropological Writings Drawn From Life
Food in the Social Order: Studies of Food and Festivities in Three American Communities
Cultures and Crises: Understanding Risk and Resolution
Thought Styles: Critical Essays on Good Taste
Man in Africa
Edward Evans-Pritchard
Cultural Bias
Across Greenland's Ice-Fields: The Adventures of Nansen and Peary on the Great Ice-Cap
Sooty's Magic Garden
Peoples of the Lake Nyasa region
Sooty's Seaside Surprise
Entertaining with Longaberger: Celebrating the Seasons
Breaking the Record: The Story of North Polar Expeditions by the Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen Route
Religion and America: Spiritual Life in a Secular Age
Mary Douglas Collection
Dominant Rationality and Risk Perception
Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo: A Macat Analysis
The Kings and Queens of England
Natural Symbols
The World of Goods
How Institutions Think
Risk and Blame
The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption
Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers
Leviticus as Literature
Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition
The Lele of the Kasai
Rules and Meanings
Mary Douglas: Collected Works
Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology
Risk Acceptability According to the Social Sciences
Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation
In the Wilderness: The Doctrine of Defilement in the Book of Numbers
In the active voice
Essays in the Sociology of Perception
Missing persons
A Very Personal Method: Anthropological Writings Drawn From Life
Food in the Social Order: Studies of Food and Festivities in Three American Communities
Cultures and Crises: Understanding Risk and Resolution
Thought Styles: Critical Essays on Good Taste
Man in Africa
Edward Evans-Pritchard
Cultural Bias
Across Greenland's Ice-Fields: The Adventures of Nansen and Peary on the Great Ice-Cap
Sooty's Magic Garden
Peoples of the Lake Nyasa region
Sooty's Seaside Surprise
Entertaining with Longaberger: Celebrating the Seasons
Breaking the Record: The Story of North Polar Expeditions by the Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen Route
Religion and America: Spiritual Life in a Secular Age
Mary Douglas Collection
Dominant Rationality and Risk Perception
Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo: A Macat Analysis
The Kings and Queens of England
Natural Symbols
The World of Goods
How Institutions Think
Mary Douglas Life story
Dame Mary Douglas, DBE FBA was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, whose area of speciality was social anthropology. Douglas was considered a follower of Émile Durkheim and a proponent of structuralist analysis, with a strong interest in comparative religion.
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