Mary Douglas on <i>Purity and Danger</i>: An Interview

This interview with Mary Douglas took place at Lancaster University in the Religious Studies Department. The main focus of was her recently published book, Purity and Danger, which had already become a classic British anthropology. questions answers ranged mainly over differences between physical body, representations body as classificatory system, social constructivism. Douglas’s early academic years influences on work, such role Roman Catholicism childhood youth, were discussed. concluded speculation about connections anthropology colonialism, how she responded to those developments.