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Mary Douglas : an intellectual biography / Richard Fardon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 315 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203159225
  • 9780203159224
  • 0203020227
  • 9780203020227
  • 0415040922
  • 9780415040921
  • 0415040930
  • 9780415040938
  • 9786610333073
  • 6610333076
  • 9781134953097
  • 1134953097
  • 9781134953042
  • 1134953046
  • 9781134953080
  • 1134953089
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mary Douglas.DDC classification:
  • 305.8/0092 B 21
LOC classification:
  • GN21.D68 F37 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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