Mary Douglas
Standard Name: Douglas, Mary
Connections
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Textual Features | Julia Kristeva | Pouvoirs de l'horreur, a psychological study of the representation of emotion, relates chiefly to modern French literature, particularly the writing of |
Timeline
25 March 1921
Mary Tew (later Mary Douglas
), future social anthropologist and author of Purity and Danger, 1966, was born at San Remo in Italy.
June 1966
AnthropologistMary Douglas
published her best-known work, Purity and Danger, a study of ritual behaviour and taboo.
July 1969
Mary Douglas
published another influential work of social anthropology, Natural Symbols.
1978
Anthropologist Mary Douglas
continued her provocative work on systems of classification in The World of Goods.
1982
Mary Douglas
pioneered anthropological work on environmentalism and risk analysis in her book Risk and Culture, written in collaboration with political scientist Aaron Wildavsky
.
11 November 2004
Anthropologist Mary Douglas
continued her reevaluation of Biblical subjects with Jacob's Tears: The priestly work of reconciliation.
February 2007
Social anthropologist Mary Douglas
published a brief study of literary composition entitled Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition.
16 May 2007
Dame Mary Douglas
, pioneering anthropologist and author, died in London at the age of eighty-six.