Mary Douglas: an intellectual biography / Richard Fardon

London; New York: Routledge, 1999. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 337 pages. Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Mary Douglas's monographs and collected essays: A note on referencing; 1 Memories of a Catholic girlhood': 1920's and 1930's; 2 Oxford years: 1940's; 3 The Africanist: 1950's; 4 Purity and Danger revisited; 5 Natural Symbols defended; 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; 10 Do institutions think?; 11 The secret consciousness of individuals and the consecrated society; References Appendix 1 Mary Douglas: a bibliography 1950...98 Appendix 2 Reviews of books written by Mary Douglas; Appendix 3 Concordance of the two editions of Natural Symbols; Name index; Subject index. Subjects:Douglas, Mary. Ethnologists Great Britain; Biography. Women ethnologists Great Britain; Biography. Anthropologists Great Britain; Biography.