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9780415040938

Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415040938

  • ISBN10:

    0415040930

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1999-06-21
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This is the first full-length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, whom many consider to be the most influential British social anthropologist of the modern era. Richard Fardon covers Douglas' family background, education and early research before providing an analysis of two of her most important works:Purity and Danger(1966) andNatural Symbols(1970). The final section deals with Douglas' often controversial forays across disciplinary boundaries--into Old Testament studies as well as the fields of economics, religion and risk analysis in contemporary societies. An indispensable aid to further research,Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biographyoffers a significant contribution to the history of social anthropology in the second half of the twentieth century and will surely remain the definitive work on its subject for years to come.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xvii
Mary Douglas's monographs and collected essays: A note on referencing style xix
PART I Beginnings: 1920s-1950s
`Memories of a Catholic girlhood': 1920s and 1930s
3(21)
Oxford years: 1940s
24(23)
The Africanist: 1950s
47(28)
PART II Synthesis: 1960s
Purity and Danger revisited
75(27)
Natural Symbols defended
102(25)
PART III Excursions and adventures: 1970s-1990s
Rituals of consumption
127(17)
Verbal weapons and environments at risk
144(24)
Returning to religion - in the contemporary West
168(17)
Returning to religion - in the Old Testament
185(24)
PART IV Conserving anthropological modernism
Do institutions think?
209(32)
The secret consciousness of individuals and the consecrated society
241(21)
References 262(1)
Appendix 1 Mary Douglas: a bibliography 1950-98 262(31)
Appendix 2 Reviews of books written by Mary Douglas 293(11)
Appendix 3 Concordance of the two editions of Natural Symbols 304(3)
Name index 307(3)
Subject index 310

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