Purity and danger
Excerpts included in Urban Legends at Columbia College Library, 2021
Excerpts included in Urban Legends at Columbia College Library, 2021
Reflection on dirt involves reflection on the relation of order to disorder, being to non-being, form to formlessness, life to death. Wherever ideas of dirt are highly structured their analysis discloses a play upon such profound themes.
Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

















