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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 perils, rituals of cleansing help redressing mental wounds, restoring the faith in established systems of classifications which keep beings and events in ‘the right place’.
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 perils, rituals of cleansing help redressing mental wounds, restoring the faith in established systems of classifications which keep beings and events in ‘the right place’.
The impure and the intense
Andrea Mubi Brighenti (author)
2015
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