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.

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)