This account of Leviticus presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective, Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding…

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…

This book is a collection of the letters and writings of William Whewell, a British philosopher and scientist who lived from 1794 to 1866. Janet Mary Douglas provides a comprehensive…

In a collection of recent essays, Mary Douglas develops a programme for studying risk and blame that follows from the ideas originally proposed in the well-known Purity and Danger.

Presents a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas.

An analysis of the Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism, which has led social scientists to consider poverty as a personal experience, a deprivation…

The great warship the Mary Rose was built between 1509 and 1511 and served 34 years in Henry VIII’s navy before catastrophically sinking in the Battle of the Solent on…

Dr. Goral, a gifted storyteller, began telling the Douglas stories to her grandchildren and then to school-aged children around the country. The love and interest children showed when hearing the…