Mary Douglas : An Intellectual Biography (Hardcover)

PART I Beginnings: 1920s?1950s 1 ‘Memories of a Catholic girlhood’: 1920s and 1930s 2 Oxford years: 1940s 3 The Africanist: 1950s PART II Synthesis: 1960s 4 Purity and Danger revisited 5 Natural Symbols defended PART III Excursions and adventures: 1970s?1990s 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 PART IV Conserving anthropological modernism 10 Do institutions think? 11 The secret consciousness of individuals and the consecrated society