Dirt. New geographies of cleanliness and contamination

CAMPKIN, Ben. COX, Rosie. Dirt. New geographies of cleanliness and contamination. I.B. Tauris, 2007 The authors bring together essays exploring how beliefs about dirt and cleanliness have affected the design, perception and experience of domestic, urban and rural space, in different historical and geographical contexts. Many of the essays respond to the seminal work of Dame Mary Douglas (1921–2007; UCL Anthropology) whose 1966 book ‘Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution a..