Home Sweet Messy Home: Managing Symbolic Pollution by Delphine Dion, Ouidade Sabri, Valérie Guillard
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8 septembre 2014
- doi: 10.58079/nyfr
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Nathalie Ortar, « Home Sweet Messy Home: Managing Symbolic Pollution by Delphine Dion, Ouidade Sabri, Valérie Guillard », La deuxième vie des objets - Anthropologie et sociologie des pratiques de récupérations, ID : 10.58079/nyfr
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Hanging up our coat, tidying our desk, classifying our books… What meanings do these mundane practices convey? Extending Mary Douglas’s work, this article investigates tidiness from the angle of symbolic pollution. Based on photo-elicitation, it shows that similarly to symbolic pollution described at a macro-social level, tidiness depends on two conditions, namely a set of classifications and the dangerous transgression of these classifications. However, at a micro-social level, individuals ...