Mary Douglas
Mary Douglas, DBE, FBA (25 March 1921 – 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism.
She was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1988.[1]
Works
[change | change source]- The Lele of the Kasai (1963)
- Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (1966)
- Pollution (1968)
- Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology (1970)
- Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology (1975)
- “Jokes” Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies (1975); edited by Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson
- The World of Goods (1979) with Baron Isherwood
- Evans-Pritchard (1980)
- Risk and Culture (1980) with Aaron Wildavsky
- In the Active Voice (1982)
- How Institutions Think (1986)
- Missing persons: a critique of the social sciences (1988) with Steven Ney
- Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory (1992)
- In the Wilderness: The Doctrine of Defilement in the Book of Numbers (1993)
- Thought styles: Critical essays on good taste (1996)
- Leviticus as Literature (1999)
- Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology (2002)
- Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation (2004)
- Thinking in Circles (2007)
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Mary Douglas". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
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