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How Institutions Think

How Institutions Think Paperback - 1986

by Douglas, Mary

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Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986. Paperback. xi, 146p., wraps, very good condition. The Frank W. Abrams Lectures.
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  • Title How Institutions Think
  • Author Douglas, Mary
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition 1986
  • Pages 158
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY
  • Date 1986
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 321428
  • ISBN 9780815602064 / 0815602065
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.92 x 0.39 in (22.86 x 15.04 x 0.99 cm)
  • Reading level 1250
  • Library of Congress subjects Organizational behavior, Cognition and culture
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86005696
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306

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About the author

Mary Douglas trained as an anthropologist at Oxford University. Early in her career, she did fieldwork in the Belgian Congo under the auspices of the International African Institute. She taught at Oxford and the University of London. In 1977 she came to America as Director for Research on Culture at the Russell Sage Foundation, and in 1981 she went to Northwestern University as Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, and is currently Visiting Professor at Princeton University.