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Matter Out of Place

Anthropological Explorations of Bodies, Dirt and Morality
Buch | Hardcover
204 Seiten
2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-683-3 (ISBN)
CHF 169,95 inkl. MwSt
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Anthropologists often use ‘pollution’ to refer to social and individual challenges to a cultural idea of purity, which may be seen in terms of religious practice, foodstuffs and social differentiation. It has been used as a trope to explore ideas of dirt and place, moral inversion and reinforcement, disgust and taboo.



The book is an invitation to consider the continued relevance of Mary Douglas’ conceptualization of pollution and dirt as ‘matter out of place’ in relation to contemporary circumstances. Its ethnographic and theoretical contributions cover diverse contexts, ranging from Europe to Africa, the Caribbean, India and Outer Space.

Rebecca Lynch is Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at the University of Exeter. Her work explores the body and biomedicine, particularly bodily fluids and boundaries, bodily relations with non-humans (e.g., technologies), morality and biomedical categorization.

Introduction: Anthropological Ideas of Pollution Revisited: Categories, Values and the Legacy of Mary Douglas

Rebecca Lynch and Roland Littlewood



Part I: Bodies, Dirt and Place



Chapter 1. Three Achievements of Dirt: Disgust, Humour, Emphasis

Sjaak van der Geest



Appendix: Akan (Twi) Proverbs about ‘Shit’ and Related Terms



Chapter 2. Leaky Bodies and The Dynamic Relationality of Matter and Place

Rebecca Lynch



Chapter 3. ‘Yesterday’s Coffee Is Tomorrow’s Coffee’: The Body, Human Waste and Off-World Living

Aaron Parkhurst and David Jeevendrampillai



Part II: Notions of Purity and Moral Inversion



Chapter 4. Filth As Faith: Stories Of Antinomian Pollution

Roland Littlewood



Chapter 5. Orgasmic Excess and Orgasmic Alienation: Capitalism as Pollution

Ellie Reynolds



Chapter 6. Psychopharmacological Purity Doctrines and The Inertia of Cruelty: Using Mary Douglas and René Girard to Understand the War on Drugs

Joseph Calabrese



Part III: Disgust



Chapter 7. The Abominations of Leviticus Reconsidered: Anthropology and Psychology of Pollution

Simon Dein



Chapter 8. The Power of Taboo: Anthropological and Neurocognitive Perspectives

Quinton Deeley



Afterword: Radioactive Pollution in Nevada and Kazakhstan: A Non-Scientific Voice for Victims

André Singer



Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.1.2025
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-80539-683-8 / 1805396838
ISBN-13 978-1-80539-683-3 / 9781805396833
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