Author: Mary Douglas

First published in 1980, this book provides an overview of E. E. Evans-Pritchard's approach to anthropology. His seminal works on the Azande and t...

First published in 1973, Rules and Meanings is an anthology of works that form part of Mary Douglas' struggle to devise an anthropological modernis...

First published in 1984, This work is a cross-cultural study of the moral and social meaning of food. It is a collection of articles by Douglas an...

First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of...

First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the ...

First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of...

First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the ...

Every natural symbol - derived from blood, breath or excrement - carries a social meaning and this work focuses on the ways in which any one cultur...

First published in 1980, this book provides an overview of E. E. Evans-Pritchard's approach to anthropology. His seminal works on the Azande and t...

First published in 1984, This work is a cross-cultural study of the moral and social meaning of food. It is a collection of articles by Douglas an...

First published in 1973, Rules and Meanings is an anthology of works that form part of Mary Douglas' struggle to devise an anthropological modernis...

It is well-understood that the consumption of goods plays an important, symbolic role in the way human beings communicate, create identity, and est...

It is well-understood that the consumption of goods plays an important, symbolic role in the way human beings communicate, create identity, and est...

One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seri...

The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a persona...

Written in the last two decades of her life, Cultures and Crises finds Mary Douglas developing analyses of critical conditions facing contemporary ...

First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects o...

This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are early i...

First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects o...

Is cleanliness next to godliness? What does such a concept really mean? Why does it recur as a universal theme across all societies? And what are t...

First published in 1992, this volume follows on from the programme for studying risk and blame that was implied in Purity and Danger. The first hal...

Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body ...

First published in 1985, Mary Douglas intended Risk and Acceptability as a review of the existing literature on the state of risk theory. Unsatisfi...