Explore/Thinkers/Mary Douglas — How Institutions ThinkbookMary Douglas — How Institutions ThinkDouglas, Mary. *How Institutions Think*. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986.Focus in observatoryPrevious← Mary Beard — SPQR: A History of Ancient RomeNextMary Douglas — Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution →Related booksBookLiving in SedimentHow Structures Outlive Their ReasonsWe live inside inherited systems built for constraints that no longer exist. When structures survive after their reasons disappear, meaning drifts—and the danger is forgetting the sediment is sediment.
