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English to Mongolian: Toilet paper analysis in pandemic time General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Anthropology
Source text - English Symbols and Rites of Passage
Another layer of toilet paper relates more specifically to its symbolism. No anthropologist can look at poop without thinking of Mary Douglas. This is not a comment on Douglas herself, but on the influence of her work on symbols, particularly those pertaining to ideas of purity and pollution (1984). She wrote, famously, that dirt is “matter out of place”, and that “where there is dirt, there is system.” (Douglas 1984, 36) What she means is this: dirt and pollution are only perceived as such in relation to cultural systems of classification. People have cultural knowledge that sorts the things in the world into different categories. This is how we understand them and their relationships with each other. When we fail to fit something into a category, we perceive it as out of place, and we experience its out-of-placeness as dirtiness. This leads people to a number of possible responses to deal with that dirt and try to maintain the stability of their categories. This is linked to one of Douglas’s most important insights: the beliefs that people hold about dirtiness and, more broadly, pollution, can express “general views of the social order.” (3) This confirms what we’ve been discussing so far about the relationship of toilet paper to security.
Born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and currently studying in Budapest for cultural anthropology masters while working as a freelance translator. I'm a lifetime learner and what I like truly about doing the translation is that I get to know about many different topics and expand my knowledge. Every project includes micro-projects to research the topics and gets to know what I should really be communicating.
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