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.
- Occupation
- writer, university teacher, anthropologist, sociologist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- March 25, 1921
- Died
- May 16, 2007
