1921 İtalya doğumlu İngiliz antropolog. 1939 - 1943 yılları arasında Oxford Üniversitesi'nde antropoloji eğitimi almış, ardından Britanya Sömürge Dairesi'nde çalışmıştır. Yaklaşık 25 yıl Londra'daki University College'da ders vermiştir.
Eserleri
The Lele of the Kasai (1963)
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (1966)
Pollution (1968)
Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology (1970)
Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology (1975)
Jokes, in Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies (1975); edited by Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson
The World of Goods (1979) with Baron Isherwood
Evans-Pritchard (1980)
Risk and Culture (1980) with Aaron Wildavsky
In the Active Voice (1982)
How Institutions Think (1986)
Missing persons: a critique of the social sciences (1988) with Steven Ney
Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory (1992)
In the Wilderness: The Doctrine of Defilement in the Book of Numbers (1993)
Thought styles: Critical essays on good taste (1996)
Leviticus as Literature (1999)
Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology (2002)
Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation (2004)
Thinking in Circles (2007)
Türkçedeki Eserleri
Tüketimin Antropolojisi, Dost Kitabevi
Saflık ve Tehlike, Metis Yayınları