Introduction: Anthropological Ideas of Pollution Revisited: Categories, Values and the Legacy of Mary Douglas Rebecca Lynch and Roland Littlewood Part I: Bodies, Dirt and Place Chapter 1. Three Achievements of Dirt: Disgust, Humour, Emphasis Sjaak van der Geest Appendix: Akan (Twi) Proverbs about 'Shit' and Related Terms Chapter 2. Leaky Bodies and The Dynamic Relationality of Matter and Place Rebecca Lynch Chapter 3. 'Yesterday's Coffee Is Tomorrow's Coffee': The Body, Human Waste and Off-World Living Aaron Parkhurst and David Jeevendrampillai Part II: Notions of Purity and Moral Inversion Chapter 4. Filth As Faith: Stories Of Antinomian Pollution Roland Littlewood Chapter 5. Orgasmic Excess and Orgasmic Alienation: Capitalism as Pollution Ellie Reynolds Chapter 6. Psychopharmacological Purity Doctrines and The Inertia of Cruelty: Using Mary Douglas and René Girard to Understand the War on Drugs Joseph Calabrese Part III: Disgust Chapter 7. The Abominations of Leviticus Reconsidered: Anthropology and Psychology of Pollution Simon Dein Chapter 8.
The Power of Taboo: Anthropological and Neurocognitive Perspectives Quinton Deeley Afterword: Radioactive Pollution in Nevada and Kazakhstan: A Non-Scientific Voice for Victims André Singer Index.