ANTHROPOLOGIST

Mary Douglas

1921 - 2007

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Dame Mary Douglas, (25 March 1921 – 16 May 2007) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Douglas is the 20th most popular anthropologist (down from 18th in 2019), the 1,688th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,709th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Mary Douglas ranks 20 out of 93. Before her are Eugène Dubois, Birutė Galdikas, Knud Rasmussen, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Mary Leakey. After her are Victor Turner, Wilhelm Schmidt, Marvin Harris, Raymond Dart, Andrey Korotayev, and Edward T. Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Mary Douglas ranks 107. Before her are Herta Bothe, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Maurice Richard, Betty Friedan, Nino Manfredi, and Leonardo Sciascia. After her are Ben Bradlee, Jaroslav Drobný, Hannah Szenes, Gavriil Ilizarov, Ariel Ramírez, and George Roy Hill. Among people deceased in 2007, Mary Douglas ranks 82. Before her are Bob Denard, Khun Sa, Atle Selberg, Vilma Espín, Ashraf Marwan, and Kiichi Miyazawa. After her are Hrant Dink, Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria, Robert Jordan, John Woodruff, Yvonne De Carlo, and Bauer.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Mary Douglas ranks 1,688 out of 5,161. Before her are Giuseppe Cesari (1568), Dionigi Tettamanzi (1934), Aistulf (null), Sancia of Majorca (1285), Domenico Zipoli (1688), and Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte (1815). After her are Francesco Cilea (1866), Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena (1593), Marco Bellocchio (1939), Roberto Calvi (1920), Giulio Douhet (1869), and Aly Khan (1911).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Italy

Among anthropologists born in Italy, Mary Douglas ranks 1. After her are Franco Basaglia (1924), and Paolo Mantegazza (1831).

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