Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007

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Summary: 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. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Female [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Born: 1921-03-25 [2][6]
Birth Place: San Remo [2]; Sanremo [6]
Died: 2007-05-16 [2][6]
Death Place: London [2][6]
Country: Great Britain [2]
Language: English [3][4]
Occupation: Antropoloģe [4]; writer [6]; university teacher [6]; anthropologist [6]; sociologist [6]; social anthropologist [6]
Employer: Northwestern University [6]; University College London [6]; Colonial Office [6]; University of Paris [6]; University of Illinois system [6]; University of Chicago [6]; New York University [6]; Columbia University [6]; Yale University [6]; Russell Sage Foundation [6]
Field of Activity: Antropoloģija [4]
Educated at: St Anne's College [6]; University of Oxford [6]; Woldingham School [6]
Country of Education: United Kingdom [6]
Archives at: Northwestern University Archives [6]
Encyclopædia Britannica: Biography [6]
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Biography (requires subscription) [6]
Yale LUX: Entity [6]
British Museum person-institution thesaurus: Entry [6]
Oxford Reference: Overview [6]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. National Library of Latvia; 5. National Library of Korea; 6. Wikidata

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