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    Mary Douglas analyzes concepts of pollution and taboo in her work Purity and Danger. She examines dietary laws from the Bible regarding clean and unclean animals. According to Leviticus, pigs are considered unclean. Douglas reviews different scholarly interpretations of these rules, including that they serve purposes of social order, cultural identity, and religious significance by delineating categories in the universe. Douglas' theory is that ideas of purity stem from objects being in the wrong place, and purity involves keeping things as they are within their proper categories.

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    Mary Douglas analyzes concepts of pollution and taboo in her work Purity and Danger. She examines dietary laws from the Bible regarding clean and unclean animals. According to Leviticus, pigs are considered unclean. Douglas reviews different scholarly interpretations of these rules, including that they serve purposes of social order, cultural identity, and religious significance by delineating categories in the universe. Douglas' theory is that ideas of purity stem from objects being in the wrong place, and purity involves keeping things as they are within their proper categories.

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    Mary Douglas analyzes concepts of pollution and taboo in her work Purity and Danger. She examines dietary laws from the Bible regarding clean and unclean animals. According to Leviticus, pigs are considered unclean. Douglas reviews different scholarly interpretations of these rules, including that they serve purposes of social order, cultural identity, and religious significance by delineating categories in the universe. Douglas' theory is that ideas of purity stem from objects being in the wrong place, and purity involves keeping things as they are within their proper categories.

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    PURITY AND

    DANGER
    An Analysis of the
    Concepts of
    pollution and taboo

    Mary Douglas
    “PEOPLE PERCEIVE
    UNIVERSE BY MAKING
    CATEGORIES ABOUT STUFF”
    According to Leviticus : Pigs are unclean

     They do not chew


    their cud.
     Causes gluttony.
    WHAT IS
    CONSIDERED
    CLEAN THEN?
    Israelites obeys what is written in the bible
    • Especially from Leviticus to Deuteronomy

    Written rules about


    what animals is
    considered clean and
    unclean

    Deals with creatures Earth


    according to how
    they live in the tree wind
    elements Fire?
    water
    WHAT IS CONSIDERED CLEAN?

    Land animals
    • Mammals that chew the cud and part the hoof

    Water animals
    • Fish with fins and scales

    Air animals

    • Birds of prey and scavengers prone to carry and transmit diseases were unclean.

    Insects
    • Insects with jointed, jumping legs
    EXAMPLE OF CLEAN ANIMALS

    Land Animals
    Parted Hoof
    Deer, Goat, Moose,
    Sheep, Hart, Gazelle,
    Giraffe, Elk, Caribou

    Cud
    EXAMPLE OF CLEAN ANIMALS

    Water Animals
    fins
    Blue fish, blue Gill,
    Carp, Cod, Drum,
    Flounder, Grouper,
    Grunt, king Fish,
    Sunfish, Salmon, etc.
    scales
    EXAMPLE OF CLEAN ANIMALS

    Flying Animals
    Non-meat
    Chicken, Dove, eaters
    Duck, Goose,
    Peafowl, Sparrow,
    Quail, Swan,
    Partridge, Pigeon, Aren't Prone to carry
    Pheasant
    transmittable disease
    EXAMPLE OF CLEAN ANIMALS

    Insects Animals
    Insects
    With
    Locust, Crickets,
    Grasshopper
    jumping
    legs
    YOU
    •But what's the reason and purpose of this rules?
    DOUGLAS COMPILED
    DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS
    FROM SCHOLARS
    •1. Rules are meaningless
    •2. Arbitrary – created to
    discipline the people.
    3. ALLEGORIES –
    CONVEYS
    DIFFERENT
    MEANINGS
    Dietary laws has its purpose:

    • Social Order
    • Connection to Culture
    • Cultural Identity
    • Religious Significance
    PURITY
    •Idea of purity – Matter being in the wrong place.

    •Two Categories of the universe –


    Things belong in the floor and
    Things that don't
    BUT WHERE'S THE DANGER?
    Danger

    Free from Switching Categories


    •But there's an
    exception
    Rights of

    passage
    “ALL THINGS SHOULD BE
    MAINTAINED THE WAY
    THEY ARE”
    •Thankyou.

    Chapter Closed. Pahinga muna. I won’t be


    entertaining anymore questions regarding this
    anymore. Thankyou for understanding..
    Charooot…

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