Mary Douglas
Subtitle: An Intellectual Biography
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 26, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780415040921
First sentence: It has been the most passionate affirmation of Mary Douglas's writings that the taken-for-granted beliefs, ideas and emotions of a period, place or person never be considered aside from the social circumstances which gave rise to them and then sustained them.