Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology is a collection of essays written in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s by the influential social anthropologist and cultural theorist Mary Douglas.

The volume Implicit Meanings was first published by Routledge in 1975 and was reprinted in 1978 and 1991.

It went into a second edition in 1999, with revisions and additional material (including a new preface), which was reprinted in 2001, and again in 2003 as volume 5 of Mary Douglas: Collected Works (ISBN 0415291089).

The essays printed had originally appeared in journals, such as Man or Daedalus, or as contributions to scholarly collections.

The essay "Jokes" was reprinted in Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies, edited by Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson (1991), pp.