Mary Douglas

<ul> <li> This book’s main competitor is Fardon’s (1999) intellectual biography. The proposed book differs from Fardon’s in six key respects:</li> <li> Shorter</li> <li> Aimed at wider readership</li> <li> Deals with later works which appeared after Fardon's book</li> <li> Looks at work done by those who have drawn upon and developed Douglas's work</li> <li> Greater emphasis on the relations between Douglas’ arguments and wider debates in the social sciences </li> <li> Shows that central to all Douglas’s arguments was the development of an approach to understanding conflict its amplification and its reconciliation whereas this theme is not central to Fardon’s book.</li></ul>