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1. In the Active Voice (Routledge Revivals)

   By Mary Douglas

   First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences. In opposition to this, the author seeks to assert an active voice style of thinking about the relations between...

   To Be Published October 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. How Institutions Think (Routledge Revivals)

   By Mary Douglas

   First published in 1986 Mary Douglas’ theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions. Different kinds of institutions allow individuals...

   To Be Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations

   Edited by Mary Douglas

   Historians as well as anthropologists have contributed to this volume of studies on aspects of witchcraft in a variety of cultures and periods from Tudor England to twentieth-century Africa and New Guinea. Contributors include: Mary Douglas, Norman Cohn, Peter Brown, Keith Thomas, Alan Macfarlane,...

   Published November 10th 2010 by Routledge
4. The Lele of the Kasai

   By Mary Douglas

   This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are early indications of Douglas's cultural imagination and written expression that were to make her works accessible and relevant to a western readership of...

   Published October 18th 2010 by Routledge
5. Evans-Pritchard

   By Mary Douglas

   First published in 1980, this book provides an overview of E. E. Evans-Pritchard's approach to anthropology. His seminal works on the Azande and the Nuer had an immense impact on the field in Britain. He wrote these works in his thirties and forties, after which time he became chair of...

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
6. Constructive Drinking

   By Mary Douglas

   First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of drinking. The three constructive functions are: that drinking has a real social role in everyday life; that drinking can be used to construct an ideal...

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
7. Essays on the Sociology of Perception

   By Mary Douglas

   First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the grip/group analysis from Natural Symbols. The essays have been important texts for preparing grid/group exercises ever since. She is still trying to...

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
8. Risk and Acceptability

   By Mary Douglas

   Published October 13th 2010 by Routledge
9. The World of Goods

   By Professor Mary Douglas

   First published in 1979, this volume introduces a cultural factor to theories of consumption. The World of Goods goes beyond standard economic analyses, which rely on theories of individual psychology. Douglas studies how consumers use goods to fulfil their intentions in regard to one another. The...

   Published October 13th 2010 by Routledge
10. Implicit Meanings

    By Professor Mary Douglas

    Implicit Meanings was first published to great acclaim in 1975. It includes writings on the key themes which are associated with Mary Douglas' work and which have had a major influence on anthropological thought, such as food, pollution, risk, animals and myth. The papers in this text demonstrate...

    Published October 13th 2010 by Routledge