ISBN:
9781800739819
,
9781800739796
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 156 Seiten
Series Statement:
Anthropology's ancestors volume 4
Series Statement:
Anthropology's ancestors
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Richards, Paul, 1945 - Mary Douglas
DDC:
301.092
Keywords:
Douglas, Mary
;
Ethnosociology
;
Social structure
;
Social conflict
;
Anthropologists Biography
;
Biografie
;
Biografie
;
Douglas, Mary 1921-2007
Abstract:
"This handy, concise biography covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. Her work focused on how human groups classify each other, and how they resolve the anomalies that then arise. Classification, she argued, emerges from practices of social life, and is a factor in all deep and intractable human disputes. This biography offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.3167/9781800739796
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