Dirt : New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination Hardback
Edited by Prof. Ben (University College London, UK) Campkin, Rosie Cox
Hardback
Description
Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - are as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping.
Yet this very fact means that we seldom question what we mean by dirt.
What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in?
This innovative work exposes the interests which underlie everyday conceptions of dirt and reveals how our ideas about it are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body.
Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban and rural - it reveals how attitudes to dirt and cleanliness become manifest in surprisingly diverse ways, including the rituals of death and burial; architectural design aesthetics; urban infrastructure and regeneration; film symbolism; and consumer attitudes to food.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, 20 integrated b/w, 1 table
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:19/12/2007
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- ISBN:9781845116729
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, 20 integrated b/w, 1 table
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:19/12/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9781845116729
