Oxford University’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and UCL Anthropology have established a fund to support an annual lecture in memory of Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007). Mary was trained at Oxford and spent most of her working life at UCL, so it is proposed that the lecture should alternate between Oxford and UCL. The topic of the lecture will be related to a field in which she was active (e.g., African ethnography, environment and technological risk, Old Testament scholarship) and outward facing from the discipline of Anthropology in keeping with her role as a public intellectual. It is anticipated that the lectures will be published in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute. The first lecture will be held in 2014.
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