Mary Douglas

Mary Douglas is the author of Purity and Danger. Her most recent book is Jacob’s Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation.

In the LRB Archive:

• I thirst! Water, I beseech thee: Sadducees v. Pharisees · 23 June 2005

  • How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualisation of Ancient Israel by William Schniedewind

• Faith, Hope and Probability · 23 May 1991

  • The Taming of Chance by Ian Hacking

• How to be Green · 13 September 1990

  • A Green Manifesto for the 1990s by Penny Kemp and Derek Wall
  • Social Philosophy and Ecological Scarcity by Keekok Lee
  • Mother Country by Marilynne Robinson
  • Blueprint for a Green Economy by David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward Barbier
  • The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon by Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn
  • Thinking Green: An Anthology of Essential Ecological Writing edited by Michael Allaby

• A Gentle Deconstruction · 4 May 1989

  • The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia by Marilyn Strathern

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