Mary Douglas
British anthropologist
Dame Mary Douglas, DBE FBA 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... Wikipedia
Born: March 25, 1921, Sanremo, Italy
Died: May 16, 2007 (age 86 years), London, United Kingdom
Parents: Gilbert Charles Tew and Phyllis Margaret Twomey
Spouse: James Douglas (m. ?–2004)
Education: University of Oxford (1947) and St Anne's College, Oxford (1943)
Research interests: Anthropology, Culture, Risk, and more
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