Mary Douglas : an intellectual biography

Mary Douglas : an intellectual biography / Richard Fardon.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fardon, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Subjects:
Douglas, Mary, > 1921-2007.
Ethnologists > Great Britain > Biography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnologists
Biography.
Great Britain
Electronic books.
Biographies
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Table of 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.

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