How Institutions Think

How Institutions Think

Author	Mary Douglas
Subject	Cultural anthropology
Publisher	Syracuse University Press
Publication date	1986
ISBN	0-8156-2369-0
Preceded by	In the Active Voice (1982)
Followed by	Constructive Drinking (1987)

How Institutions Think (first published 1986) is a book that contains the published version of the Frank W. Abrams Lectures delivered by the influential cultural anthropologist Mary Douglas at Syracuse University in March 1985.

Reviews

Ian Hacking in the London Review of Books, 8/22, 18 December 1986.
Kenneth Lipartito in the Business History Review, 80/1, Spring 2006, pp. 135-140.

Works by Mary Douglas

The Lele of the Kasai (1963)
Purity and Danger (1966)
Natural Symbols (1970)
Rules and Meanings (1973)
Implicit Meanings (1975)
The World of Goods (1979)
Evans-Pritchard (1980)
Risk and Culture (1980)
In the Active Voice (1982)
How Institutions Think (1986)
Constructive Drinking (1987)
Missing Persons (1988)
Risk and Blame (1992)
In the Wilderness (1993)
Thought Styles (1996)
Leviticus as Literature (1999)
Jacob's Tears (2004)
Thinking in Circles (2007)

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