RELIGST 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Only Time, Burakumin, Chopsticks
3 Dec 2014
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Its not a constant, it moves, it changes. Might be rude to show your feet in some cultures, but others, its cool. Wearing shoes inside house compared to going in barefoot. In a society, when you see something being classified as dirty, you"re actually seeing a system in place. There"s nothing with something being dirty or not, it"s about dirt is matter out of place . Whats happening is a system is being put in place, rules being enforced, often very subtly. When you see rules about dirt, and being dirty, its rules entrenched deep in a system. Lot of words like dirty: unclean, rebellious, non-christian, etc. Remember the class system in the tokugawa period. Mostly when you think about untouchables, you think indian caste system. But japan has it too, till this day in fact. Some occupations seen as impure and they were performed by these people.
