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Social Anthropology

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Cultural Anthropology

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According to Wikipedia, 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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Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory (1994) (2402)
Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology. (1970) (1393)
Implicit meanings: Essays in anthropology (1975) (422)
The Idea of a Home: A Kind of Space (2016) (280)
In the Active Voice (1982) (246)
The Social Control of Cognition: Some Factors in Joke Perception (1968) (238)
Constructive Drinking: Perspectives On Drink From Anthropology (2002) (191)
Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology (1975) (166)
The Self as Risk Taker: A Cultural Theory of Contagion in Relation to AIDS (1990) (151)
Four cultures: the evolution of a parsimonious model (1999) (119)
How Classification Works Nelson Goodman Among the Social Sciences (1995) (107)
Missing Persons a Critique of the Social Sciences (1998) (97)
In the Wilderness: The Doctrine of Defilement in the Book of Numbers, Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 158 (2001) (94)
Leviticus As Literature (2000) (92)
Missing Persons: A Critique of Personhood in the Social Sciences by Mary Douglas and Steven Ney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, 223 + xiv pp. $24.95 (1999) (90)
Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition (2007) (80)
Rules and meanings : the anthropology of everyday knowledge : selected readings (1973) (77)
Being Fair to Hierarchists (2003) (52)
CULTURE IN ACTION : SYMBOLS AND (1986) (50)
The Effects of Modernization on Religious Change (2016) (49)
Traditional Culture: Let Us Hear No More about It (2007) (49)
Terrorism: A Positive Feedback Game (2003) (38)
Deep Thoughts on the Forbidden (2000) (28)
Dogon Restudied: A Field Evaluation of the Work of Marcel Griaule [and Comments and Replies] (1991) (28)
The Forbidden Animals in Leviticus (1993) (26)
Emotion and culture in theories of justice (1993) (23)
Dwight Heath. A decade of development in the anthropological study of alcohol use, 1970-1980 (2013) (18)
The Background of the Grid Dimension: A Comment (1989) (18)
PASSIVE VOICE THEORIES IN RELIGIOUS SOCIOLOGY (1979) (16)
Sorcery, Demons, and the Rise of Christianity from Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages (2013) (16)
Risk and Rationality: Philosophical Foundations for Populist Reforms . By K. S. Shrader-Frechette. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. 312p. $39.95 cloth, $15.95 paper. (1993) (14)
The Social Preconditions of Radical Scepticism (1984) (14)
Morality and Culture (1983) (14)
Culture as Explanation: Cultural Concerns (2001) (12)
Red Riding Hood: An Interpretation from Anthropology (1995) (11)
Risk, Society, and Social Theory@@@Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity.@@@Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory. (1993) (11)
The Eucharist: Its Continuity with the Bread Sacrifice of Leviticus (1999) (10)
Justice as the Cornerstone (1999) (10)
RESPONDING TO EZRA: THE PRIESTS AND THE FOREIGN WIVES (2002) (9)
Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault and Jürgen Habermas@@@Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas (1985) (9)
Taboo, Truth and Religion (1999) (9)
A typology of cultures (1989) (8)
Commission on the Anthropology of Food: Statement on its history and current objectives (1979) (8)
Distinguished Lecture: The Hotel Kwilu—A Model of Models (1989) (8)
Judgments on James Frazer (2016) (6)
Cultures and Crises: Understanding Risk and Resolution (2013) (5)
Natural symbols : explorations in cosmology : with a newintroduction (1996) (4)
Anthropology and Comparative Religion (1985) (4)
Lita Osmundsen d the Wenner-Gren Foundation: An Appreciation (1986) (3)
Culture clash in American anthropology (1999) (3)
Witchcraft@@@European Witchcraft@@@The God of the Witches@@@Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations@@@Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England@@@Religion and the Decline of Magic@@@Witchcraft, Sorcery and Social Categories among the Safwa@@@Witchcraft and Sorcery (1972) (3)
The Metaphor as a Mediator Between Semantic and Analogic Modes of Thought [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (2)
Loose Ends and Complex Arguments@@@Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. (1985) (2)
THE GENDER OF THE BELOVED (1995) (2)
Atonement in Leviticus (2016) (2)
Anthropology and Social Studies (1951) (1)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: The Anthropology of Experience. Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner, eds (1990) (1)
Sacraments and Society An Anthropologist Asks, What Women Could be Doing in the Church? (1996) (1)
In the Active Voice (Routledge Revivals) (2013) (1)
The Gender of the Trout (2003) (1)
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics@@@Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas (1985) (1)
Poverty as a Freedom Concern (2007) (0)
Towards a Cognitive Anthropology@@@How Institutions Think@@@Cultural Models in Language and Thought (1989) (0)
Culture and Morality. Elvin Hatch (1984) (0)
Book Reviews intersects with changing dynamics of social recognition; and (4) the paradox between the (Western) idealization of an ageless (2010) (0)
Book Review:Cosmogony and Ethical Order: New Studies in Comparative Ethics Robin W. Lovin, Frank E. Reynolds (1988) (0)
Elementary forms and their dynamics : revisiting (2015) (0)
International commission on the anthropology of food and food problems. Statement on its history and current objectives (1980) (0)
The Spatial Projection of Social Relations in Fiji (1991) (0)
Acceptance (1995) (0)
Volume Information (1995) (0)
Howard Margolis, Dealing with Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issues , University of Chicago Press, 1996. (1996) (0)
Mountain, Tabernacle, Body in Leviticus 1–7 (2001) (0)
The Godolphin School, 1726-1926 (0)
An aesthetic view of the relation between culture and nature (2008) (0)

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