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Mary Douglas (March 25, 1921- May 16, 2007)

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Page 1: Mary Douglas Presentation

Mary Douglas (March 25, 1921- May 16, 2007)

Page 2: Mary Douglas Presentation

Douglas attended the Sacred Heart Convent School in Roehampton,

London, England.

• Douglas found a new sense of security, stability and belonging in the convent school.

• Scared Heart introduced Douglas to a richly constructed world.

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Douglas was interested in social policy and wanted to study

sociology but ultimately focused on politics, philosophy, and economics

at Oxford University.

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After graduating from university in 1943, Douglas volunteered in the

British Colonial Service where she began to meet anthropologists.

She studied under Evans-Pritchard

who was her teacher, mentor and role model.

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In 1949, Douglas began her fieldwork in the Belgian Congo and studied the tribe

the Lele of the Kasai.

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In 1951, Mary married James Douglas

• For the next several years, Douglas focused on caring for her family.

• She had one daughter, Janet, born in 1951.

• And two sons, James, born in 1954 and Philip, born in 1956.

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In 1966, after taking a breakto care for her family,Douglas published her mostfamous piece of work Purityand Danger: An analysis ofconcepts of pollution andtaboo.

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Douglas explored relationships between dirt, holiness, impurity and hygiene. She dealt with the ways in which the human body is used as a social and religious symbol.

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Douglas’s next major book was Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology published in 1970.

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Douglas proposed a new methodology for comparative anthropology known as

the grid-and-group analysis.

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In 1978, Douglas published The World of Goods with Baron Isherwood which

was her collaborative research on British consumerism.

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In 1982, Douglas co-authored the book Risk and Culture with Aaron Wildavsky.

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In 1986, Douglas published How Institutions Think which was an

analysis of social accountability in institutional settings.

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The last book that Douglas wrote was Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring

Composition published in 2007.

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On May 8, 2007, Douglas was made a dame commander of the British Empire. On May 16, 2007, Dame Mary Douglas died in

London of complications of cancer.