What is Mary Douglas?
'''Mary Douglas''', [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]], [[Fellow of the British Academy|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Douglas_Mary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Douglas_Mary |title=Mary Douglas |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> ==Works== *''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== {{reflist}} {{wikiquote-en}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Douglas, Mary}} [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:2007 deaths]] [[Category:British academics]] [[Category:British anthropologists]] [[Category:Members of Academia Europaea]]