玛丽·道格拉斯作为著名的象征人类学家、新结构主义的代表,其成名作《洁净与危险》从宗教人类学和社会人类学的视角分析了人类对洁净与肮脏这一对概念的认识,并从仪式的功能分析人们产生这些认识的心理要素及其象征意义,《洁净与危险》,奠定了道格拉斯在人类学界的地位,二元对立的分类分析方法对后世人类学家也产生了很大影响。 Marie Douglas as a famous symbolic anthropologist and neo-structuralist representative, his fame as “clean and dangerous” from the perspective of religious anthropology and social anthropology analysis of human understanding of the concept of clean and dirty, And from the function of ritual to analyze the psychological elements and their symbolic meaning, “cleanliness and danger”, which led to these cognition, laid Douglas’s position in the anthropology. The dichotomous method of classification analysis also produced a great deal for later generations of anthropologists influences.