Disgust and the Anthropological Imagination

Abstract

Although disgust often features in anthropological shop talk and teaching, it has not been explored as a heuristic in formal anthropological studies. I suggest that studying disgust would contribute to understanding the tensions and revealing underdeveloped elements in some common analytical frameworks, including the mind–body relationship, the nature of the self, anthropological approaches to the senses and to emotion, recent interest in intimacy, and the invocation of the imagination as part of social and cultural process, as well as the ways we think about fieldwork and write ethnographies.

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