Author

Mary Douglas

28 books

Books

  1. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo 1966
  2. Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology 1970
  3. How Institutions Think 1986
  4. Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition 2007
  5. Leviticus as Literature 1999
23 more
  1. Risk and culture 1982
  2. The world of goods 1979
  3. Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology 1975
  4. Programming language/one 1967
  5. Cultural bias 1978
  6. Rules and meanings 1973
  7. Religion and America 1983
  8. Witchcraft confessions & accusations 1970
  9. Constructive drinking 1987
  10. In the wilderness 1993
  11. Man in Africa 1969
  12. In the active voice 1982
  13. Thought styles 1996
  14. Edward Evans-Pritchard 1980
  15. Risk and blame 1992
  16. The Lele of the Kasai 1963
  17. The Doubleday pictorial library of man in society 1964
  18. Entertaining with Longaberger 2003
  19. Jacob's Tears 2004
  20. Risk acceptability according to the social sciences 1985
  21. Mary Douglas Collected Works 2008
  22. How classification works 1992
  23. How Institutions Think (Routledge Revivals) 2012

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  5. Marcel Mauss The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
  6. Margaret Mead Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
  7. Claude Levi-Strauss Structural Anthropology
  8. Emile Durkheim The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

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