An Expert on my field

Hi! In this publication I will write about an expert on my field, the anthropology.

Dame Mary Douglas born on the 25th of March of 1921 and died on the 16th of May of 2007. She was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, whose area of speciality was social anthropologist. Douglas was considered a follower of Emile Durkheim and a proponent of structuralist analysis, with a strong interest in comparative religion.

Although she is a woman, she doesn´t make a feminist theory in anthropology. Mary Douglas proposes cultural perspective for the analysis of everyday life.

 

The most outstanding contribution of Douglas is her interpretation of the book of Leviticus and also she wrote a book called Purity and Danger, published in 1966, in wich she makes an analysis of the concepts of ritual purity and impurity in different societies and times, is considered a key text in social anthropology. 

I like Mery Douglas because is a woman anthropologist and  her books are easy to understand and to remember and also amusing. 

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