According to Awilum, who got it from the Agade listserv, Mary Douglas passed away yesterday. Douglas was a social anthropologist who is best know to biblical scholars through her work Purity and Danger, where she argued that purity laws in the OT are best understand as maintaining boundaries. She also wrote two others books of interest to OT scholars: Leviticus as Literature and In The Wilderness.
Douglas studied under E. Evan-Pritchard. She taught at University College London and Northwestern University. She was invested as a Dame of the Order of the British Empire a week before she died.