Matter Out of Place

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 Rene 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

Andre Singer



Index

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• Teoria social
• Antropologia social e cultural
• Ética e filosofia moral

Anthropology (General), Anthropology of Religion, Sociology