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Last class Todays class

• Place spirit stories as ways of articulating the
  essence of a place and dealing with
  contradictions in the system
• The male/female spirit difference and focus on
  gender, marriage
• Quick Douglas intro.

• Desire for order
• Boundaries as way to get categories
• Category formation by other means
• What is dirty what is edible?
• Anomaly and ways of dealing with anomalies

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Order is good

• Comfort of things being in the right place
• Comfort of routine
• Pleasure in creating order Solitaire
• Pleasure of repetitive acts rocking, knitting,
  petting an animal

• Displeasure when your sense of order is messed
  with
• Someone takes your seat
• Roommate puts toilet paper in backwards
• Dishes in wrong place
• Stopped on supermarkets changing things around

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How to create order?

• Boundaries in space
• State boundaries
• Property lines (city/individual jurisdiction)
• Animals mark territory wolf example
• Boundaries in time
• Drinking age, driving age
• Hunting season
• Power of boundaries

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Role of biology, physical reality

• Boundaries CAN be determined by biology, but need
  not be
• State boundaries (or back yard)
• Drinking/driving age and competence, maturity
• Voting, serving in military
• Statutory rape example in Ann Landers

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Other categories

• Boundaries in time and space are not the only way
  to get categories (though easy to see and very
  important for Slavs)
• What is dirty?
• Chewed gum
• Spit is it biologically harmful?
• Claim your Volkswagen
• Clean undies in freezer
• Pee versus extract of urea
• Urine for sty in eye
• Horse shit and adobe bricks, heating blocks

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How clean is the USA?

• Living in Iavorivka
• Bushovye nozhki
• Soapy water
• Peter, Baba Polia and the dirty glass
• In USA
• Legionnaires disease
• Radon problems, increase in allergies
• Pool with disinfectant versus stavok
• Pool diaper policy
• Pool at Frye Springs

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What would you eat?(Parallel to Leviticus
chapter)

• Insects? Great delicacy in other cultures
• Organ meats
• Stuff on Fear Factor, Survivor
• Question of texture, esp. slime
• Raw oysters
• Honey and little kid in Douglas
• Lovers tears versus snot
• Okra stringy cheese on pizza
• Gak and Smell My Gak

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More food

• Studynets/kholodets
• Iskembe
• Salo and fear of fat
• Fat free cookies how many calories?
• Olestra and leakage

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1. Are you male or female A male 22 B
female 77 2. Should men wear tight-fitting
bathing suits (Speedo type)? A yes 6 B
no 93 3. Should women wear tight-fitting
bathing suits? A yes 93 B no 6 4.
What is your reaction to a man in a tight-fitting
bathing suit? This person wants peak athletic
performance 24 This person has something to
prove 32 This person is gay 11 This person
does not know American culture 31 5. What is
your reaction to a woman in a baggy bathing
suit? This person has something to prove 4 This
person has something to hide 88 This person is
gay 0 This person does not know American
culture 6
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6. Should women use bathing suits with padded
tops to make themselves more attractive? Yes 27
No 72 7. Should women wear bathing suits with
control bottoms to make themselves more
attractive? Yes 48 No 51 8. Should men use
any sorts of enhancements in their bathing
suits? Yes 3 No 96 9. How important is a slim
body in a woman? Extremely 22 Moderately 68 Mini
mally 8 Not at all 0 10. How important is a
slim body in a man? Extremely 1 Moderately 65 M
inimally 31 Not at all 1
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11. Who is more interested in sex? Men 49 Women
3 Equal 47 12. Who is physically
stronger? Men 100 Women 0 Equal 0 13. Who
is more physically aggressive? Men 93 Women 0
Equal 6 14. Who is more sexually aggressive?
Men 57 Women 6 Equal 36 15. Who is more
interested in marriage? Men 0 Women 77 Equal
22 16. Who is more interested in children? Men
1 Women 57 Equal 41
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17. Who sits at the head of the
table? Dad 36 Mom 4 Does not matter 59 18.
Who takes the first helping? Dad
9 Mom 6 Youngest child 13 Does not
matter 70 19. With whom would you be willing to
share your food? Your lover/spouse 16 Your
child 3 Any family member 73 Your friend 6 No
one 0 20. In the home, is it okay for the cook
to touch the food with his/her naked hands while
preparing it? Yes 96 No 0 No opinion 4
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21. In a restaurant, okay for the cook to touch
food with hands while preparing
it? Yes 29 No 67 No opinion 3 22. At home,
is it okay for the cook to touch food with hands
while serving it? Yes 52 No 42 No
opinion 4 23. In a restaurant, okay for the cook
to touch food with hands while serving
it? Yes 9 No 88 No opinion 1 24. In a
restaurant, okay for the waiter touch food with
hands while serving it? Yes 1 No 95 No
opinion 3 25. At home, while someone is cooking,
is it okay for them to put a cooking utensil in
the mouth, then put the utensil back in the pan?
Yes 59 No 39 No opinion 0
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26. In a restaurant, okay for cook to put cooking
utensil in the mouth and then put the utensil
back in the pan? Yes 1 No 96 No
opinion 1 27. At a party, is it okay to
double-dip, Yes 15 No 78 No
opinion 6 Which of the following would you feel
comfortable borrowing from a same-sex friend.
Mark A for yes, I would borrow this and B for no,
I would not feel comfortable borrowing that item.
28. Shirt 98Y 29. Pants 98Y 30.
Underwear 19Y 31. Comb 88Y 32. Soap 70Y 33.
Toothbrush 13Y 34. Used bath towel 36Y 35. Used
hand towel 83Y
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Which of the following would you feel comfortable
touching. In each case the substance is not your
own. Mark A for yes, it is okay to touch and B
for no, I would not like to touch that stuff. 36.
Tears 93Y 37. Spittle (not saliva) 11Y 38.
Snot 6Y 39. Dried snot 8Y 40. Blood 18Y 41.
Urine 0Y 42. Semen 10Y
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Dirt matter out of place

• Stuff that is somehow outside of or between
  categories is anomalous
• Boundary crosser or
• Category breaker
• What to do with anomaly?
• Label one or the other
• Physical control
• Avoid
• Label dangerous
• Use in ritual for ritual power

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Label claim something is not anomalous at all

• Labels to include/exclude
• Special needs people
• Where do they live?
• Retirement homes how are people in them
  anomalous?
• Labeling sexual predators
• Russian attempts to identify ( label) witches

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Physical control

• The various homes
• Anomaly of students and where they live
• Other restrictions on students
• Avoidance and labeling dangerous with examples
  above

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Use in ritual

• The Dogwood parade and the people from various
  homes
• Feed the homeless at Thanksgiving
• Not just anomalous people, but foods, substances,
  actions
• Loving Cup at UVa graduation
• Kiss strangers on New Years

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