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Mary Douglas
Anthropologist, Author
1921 – 2007
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Who was Mary Douglas?
Dame Mary Douglas, DBE, FBA was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, 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.
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- Born
- Mar 25, 1921
Sanremo - Also known as
- Дуглас, Мэри
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Irish people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Oxford
- St Anne's College, Oxford
- Employment
- Northwestern University
- Died
- May 16, 2007
London
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on July 23, 2013
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