Education
Mary Douglas, a British Anthropologist, is among the foremost brilliant and intellectually creative scholars of her time. She was educated as a Catholic at the Sacred Heart Convent, in England, and from the start, she was keenly interested in religion. After that, she went to Oxford where she did a B.A degree in 1943. During her Degree at oxford, she fell under the influence of the famous social anthropologist E.E Evans-Pritchard, who was also interested in comparative religion. For some time Mary Douglas worked in the British Colonial office, where she encountered many social anthropologists, after some time she decided to dig deep in anthropology and went to Oxford and take a “conversion” course in anthropology and registered for the doctorate in anthropology in 1949 and went to Africa, to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), to study the folkways of a tribe, the Lele of the Kasai, for her Ph.D. under professor Evans-Pritchard in 1951.