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Mary Douglas
British anthropologist (1921-2007) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 86
Dame Mary Douglas, 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.
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