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Mary Douglas – reading over three decades (substack) Mary Douglas: a negative gist (substack) Mary Douglas : a positive spin (substack) The lawyer and the doctor Risk, training, habit & inclination. Mary Douglas and narcissism. Not in that order. (substack) Douglas & Ney's 1998 'Missing Persons: A Critique of the Social Sciences' Part one — Missing institutions (substack) Part two…

About twenty years ago Jamie Kirkpatrick wrote a book The ecologies of paradise: explaining the garden next door. (PDF) In the Australian blogosphere at the time (how to find those comments? on blogspot? (oh look searchblogspot.com but no) there was some dismissive commentary in regard to Jamie’s comments about 'leafy suburbs' (these being the posher suburbs in Australia), and specifically,…