ANTHROPOLOGIST

Mary Douglas

1921 - 2007

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Dame Mary Douglas, (25 March 1921 – 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture, symbolism and risk, whose area of speciality was social anthropology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Douglas has received more than 370,485 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Mary Douglas is the 18th most popular anthropologist (up from 19th in 2019), the 1,709th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,502nd in 2019) and the most popular Italian Anthropologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Mary Douglas ranks 18 out of 93. Before her are Clifford Geertz, Knud Rasmussen, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Eugène Dubois, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Edward T. Hall. After her are Mary Leakey, Marc Augé, Victor Turner, Cheikh Anta Diop, Marshall Sahlins, and A. L. Kroeber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Mary Douglas ranks 103. Before her are Jim Garrison, Raymond Goethals, Neslişah Sultan, Nino Manfredi, Hans Albert, and Jean-Marie Balestre. After her are John Money, Nobuo Matsunaga, George Roy Hill, James Clavell, Hannah Szenes, and Virgilio Barco Vargas. Among people deceased in 2007, Mary Douglas ranks 77. Before her are Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria, Lady Bird Johnson, Kiichi Miyazawa, André Gorz, Khun Sa, and Vilma Espín. After her are Ira Levin, István Sándorfi, Mika Špiljak, Nobuo Matsunaga, Kisho Kurokawa, and Atle Selberg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Mary Douglas ranks 1,709 out of 5,161. Before her are Bona of Savoy (1449), Pacuvius (-220), Infante Gabriel of Spain (1752), Eusebius of Vercelli (283), Altichiero (1330), and Antonio Salandra (1853). After her are Catherine of Genoa (1447), Isabella of Savoy (1591), Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876), Francesco Filippini (1853), Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus (-180), and Marco Pantani (1970).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Italy

Among anthropologists born in Italy, Mary Douglas ranks 1. After her are Franco Basaglia (1924), and Paolo Mantegazza (1831).

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