The impure and the intense
Mary Douglas famously argued that dirt is a by-product of order: something is perceived as‘dirty’to the extent that it does not match with cultural classificatory systems. Dirt is a heterogeneous, residual category which threatens social order by threatening people’s cogni- tive order. Against its p...
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professionaldreamers
2015-06-01
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