Person
Mary Douglas
Anthropologist of risk, purity, and how institutions think through classification and blame.
Why this matters
Douglas links culture, taboo, and accountability—how groups decide what failure means.
Works2 sources
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How Institutions Think
Douglas, Mary. How Institutions Think. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution
Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge, 1966.
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Before Certainty Arrives
How Moral Order Forms, Hardens, and Outlives Its Reasons
How moral order forms, hardens, and outlives its reasons—before certainty feels like the only available posture.
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How Structures Outlive Their Reasons
We 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.
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