...pollution behavior in one part of the world and another is only a matter of detail." 29 Douglas summarizes: "If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions:...

...and still current "dirt." Lord Chesterfield defined dirt as matter out of place. This implies only two conditions, a set of ordered relations and a contravention of that order. Thus the idea of dirt implies a structure of ideas. For us dirt is a kind of compendium category for...

...approaches to ritual are fruitless because of a failure to confront our own ideas of hygiene and dirt. . . . If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from...relations and a contravention of that order. Dirt, then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product...

...discussion by attending to what people generally mean by the terms pollution or dirt (Douglas 1966, 1969). If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from...relations and a contravention of that order. Dirt, then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product...

..."rioting." Like the concept of dirt in Mary Douglas's formulation, terms like "trash" and "riot" imply two conditions, "a set of ordered relations and a contravention of that order. Dirt, then, is never a unique isolated event. Where there is dirt there is system" (Douglas 1966: 48). Rabbits...

..."MATTER OUT OF PLACE": TRAVELS THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY We are left with the old definition of din as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive...relations and a contravention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger In Tobias Smollett's Travels...

...matter in the wrong place'.' It is there again in Mary Douglas' observation, 'If we abstract pathogenity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place.'6 So wholesome, so detached! Because what concerns the housewife is the way matter travels,...

...subject of pollution, Mary Douglas speaks of 'dirt as matter out of place' and goes on to argue that 'it implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contravention of that order'. Dirt, she says, 'is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product...

...are not dirty in themselves, she notes, but putting them on the dining-room table is a 'dirty' act. If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from...the old definition of dirt as matter out of place . . . Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering...

...- the fear of contamination of national identity - becomes evident.39 Mary Douglas maintains that: If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from...relations and a contravention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product...