Five counterexamples to a definition of dirt

IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) 28 (12):73-74 (2023)
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This paper considers five counterexamples to Mary Douglas's definition of dirt, one of which is extracted from a scene from George Eliot's novel Middlemarch and another from Marilyn Strathern's essay on anthropology at home.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
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The limits of auto-anthropology.Marilyn Strathern - 1987 - In Anthony Jackson (ed.), Anthropology at home. pp. 59-67.

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