A Very Personal Method

Mary Douglas was one of the leading contemporary anthropologists of the last century. Her work is wide ranging and was developed along many fronts. Her method of analysis was idiosyncratic and sometimes downright mysterious. This timely, well informed book draws together her chief writings on method. It reveals a thinker who was continuously innovative and individual. Richard Fardon is a major commentator on Douglas´s work. In this book he brings together a fascinating collection of original material to provide a definitive account of Douglas´s methodology. It reveals a thinker who was continuously innovative and individual. Through statements, interviews, plays and rare scripts of old lectures we get to know Mary as a person as well as an anthropologist.