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Dame
Mary Douglas
DBE FBA
Born
Margaret Mary Tew
(1921-03-25)25 March 1921
Sanremo, Italy
Died
16 May 2007(2007-05-16) (aged 86)
London, England
Nationality
British
Alma mater
University of Oxford
Known for
Purity and Danger, Natural Symbols, Cultural theory of risk
Awards
FBA, CBE, DBE
Scientific career
Fields
Social anthropology, Comparative religion
Institutions
University College London, Russell Sage Foundation, Northwestern University, Princeton University
Doctoral advisor
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
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Dame Mary Douglas, DBE FBA (25 March 1921 – 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture, symbolism and risk, whose area of speciality was social anthropology. Douglas was considered a follower of Émile Durkheim and a proponent of structuralist analysis, with a strong interest in comparative religion.[1]
^Fardon, Richard (2018). Immortality yet? Or, the permanence of Mary Douglas. Anthropology Today, 34.4, August, 23–26.
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