Mary Douglas : an intellectual biography /

Fardon, Richard.

Mary Douglas : an intellectual biography / Richard Fardon. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1999. - 1 online resource (xx, 315 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Mary Douglas's monographs and collected essays: A note on referencing; 1 Memories of a Catholic girlhood': 1920s and 1930s; 2 Oxford years: 1940s; 3 The Africanist: 1950s; 4 Purity and Danger revisited; 5 Natural Symbols defended; 6 Rituals of consumption; 7 Verbal weapons and environments at risk; 8 Returning to religion ... in the contemporary West; 9 Returning to religion ... in the Old Testament; 10 Do institutions think?; 11 The secret consciousness of individuals and the consecrated society; References.

This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social anthropologist whose publications span the second half of the twentieth century.

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Douglas, Mary.


Ethnologists--Great Britain--Biography.
Ethnologues--Grande-Bretagne--Biographies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Ethnologists.
Biography.


Great Britain.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.

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