| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 315 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Mary Douglas's monographs and collected essays: A note on referencing; 1 Memories of a Catholic girlhood': 1920s and 1930s; 2 Oxford years: 1940s; 3 The Africanist: 1950s; 4 Purity and Danger revisited; 5 Natural Symbols defended; 6 Rituals of consumption; 7 Verbal weapons and environments at risk; 8 Returning to religion ... in the contemporary West; 9 Returning to religion ... in the Old Testament; 10 Do institutions think?; 11 The secret consciousness of individuals and the consecrated society; References. |
| Summary |
This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social anthropologist whose publications span the second half of the twentieth century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Douglas, Mary.
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Douglas, Mary, 1921- |
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Douglas, Mary. |
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Ethnologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Ethnologists. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fardon, Richard. Mary Douglas. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 0415040922 (DLC) 98025907 (OCoLC)39235708 |
| ISBN |
0203159225 (electronic book) |
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9780203159224 (electronic book) |
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0203020227 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780203020227 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0415040922 (Cloth) |
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9780415040921 (Cloth) |
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0415040930 (Paper) |
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9780415040938 (Paper) |
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