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Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007

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Personal name headingDouglas, Mary, 1921-2007
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Variant(s)Douglas, Margaret Mary Tew, 1921-2007
Douglas, Mary Tew, 1921-
Tew, Mary, 1921-2007
Other standard no.0000000114793636
Associated countryEngland Congo (Democratic Republic) United States
Birth date1921-03-25
Death date2007-05-16
Place of birthSan Remo (Italy)
AffiliationUniversity College, London. Anthropology Department
Russell Sage Foundation
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Profession or occupationAnthropologists College teachers
Found inPeoples of the Lake Nyasa region, 1950: t.p. (Mary Douglas)
Edward Evans-Pritchard, 1981: t.p. (Mary Douglas)
NLM files, 12-8-86 (hdg.: Douglas, Mary; usage: Mary Douglas)
Times online WWW site, May 18, 2007 (Professor Dame Mary Douglas; b. Mar. 25, 1921, San Remo, where her parents had stopped while returning home from Burma; d. May 16, 2007; challenging and wide-ranging social anthropologist whose ideas and influence reverberated far beyond her discipline)
The Guardian website, Dame Mary Douglas [obituary], May 17, 2007, viewed Feb. 6, 2014 (fieldwork in Belgian Congo, now DR Congo; taught at University College London 1951-1977; at the Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1977-1981; occupied a chair in anthropology and religious studies, Northwestern University, 1981-1985)
Data from 678 field, Feb. 6, 2014 (b. 1921 in Italy; Oxford: B.A., B.Sc., D.Phil.; lecturer in social anthropology, Oxford and at University Coll., London)
Associated languageeng
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