![]() Yet dirt itself is the literal base of rural culture. ![]() Nor the love of cleanliness is natural to man, but only the capacity ofĭiscussions of dirt, following the insights of Anthropologist Mary Douglas, position it as a relative value, a conceptual moving target. Instinctive, but a triumph over instinct. Of all virtues this is the most evidently not State as to be unused to it in any form, are the sole persons whom itĭisgusts in all forms. ![]() Whom it is unfamiliar, so that those who have lived in so artificial a Of the subject appears to be, that uncleanliness offends only those to Small minority are consistently offended by it. Human beings tolerate it in some of its worst forms, and only a very Indifferent to it: whole nations of otherwise civilized and cultivated Can anything be more entirelyĪrtificial? Children, and the lower classes of most countries, seem toīe actually fond of dirt: the vast majority of the human race are That of which the absence, more than of anything else, renders menīestial the quality of cleanliness. Moral distinctions between human beings and most of the lower animals ![]() To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth. Some of this material goes back to my dissertation (2001, NYU). This is an expansion and revision of a talk, "Rot to Cash Crop: Waste, Thrift and Recuperation in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture" that I presented at "The Green Nineteenth Century" in Milwaukee, WI (2009). ![]()
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