Mary Douglas

1921 - 2007

country of citizenship: England

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: St Anne's College, Woldingham School, University of Oxford

award received: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, John Desmond Bernal Prize, Fellow of the British Academy, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Huxley Memorial Medal

influenced by: Émile Durkheim

Dame Mary Douglas, (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. Source: Wikipedia (en)