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Pollution Beliefs

Pollution Beliefs is a symbolic anthropological construct that designates culturally specific systems of thought in which certain persons, objects, or actions are deemed ritually impure or spiritually contaminating, thereby requiring avoidance, avoidance rituals, or purification to maintain social and cosmological order.

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2017–2026

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Publications

57

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo.

Edwin Ardener, Mary Douglas · Man · 1967 · 2.8K citations

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Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion

John Herington, Robert Dale Parker · The Classical World · 1985 · 1.2K citations

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Survey on awareness and attitudes of secondary school students regarding plastic pollution: implications for environmental education and public health in Sharjah city, UAE

M Bakri Hammami, Eman Qasem Mohammed, Anas Hashem et al. · Environmental Science and Pollution Research · 2017 · 113 citations

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Polluted work: A self-control perspective on air pollution appraisals, organizational citizenship, and counterproductive work behavior

Ryan Fehr, Kai Chi Yam, Wei He et al. · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 2017 · 101 citations

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Ritual Pollution as an Integrator of Caste and Religion

Edward B. Harper · The Journal of Asian Studies · 1964 · 90 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. MS
    Martin Stanisstreet

    University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 247 citations

    6

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  2. EB
    Edward Boyes

    University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 247 citations

    6

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  3. GW
    G. W. Myers

    University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 64 citations

    2

    h-index

  4. YF
    Yitzhaq Feder

    University of Haifa, Israel

    2 publications · 46 citations

    2

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  5. VS
    Vasso Spiliotopoulou Papantoniou

    University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 87 citations

    2

    h-index

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Institutions

63

  1. University of Liverpool

    Liverpool, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    528 citations

  2. Wuhan University

    Wuhan, China

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    179 citations

  3. University of Haifa

    Haifa, Israel

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    46 citations

  4. Peking University

    Beijing, China

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    247 citations

  5. University of Patras

    Pátrai, Greece

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    87 citations

  6. Universidad Católica del Norte

    Antofagasta, Chile

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    160 citations

  7. University of New Hampshire at Manchester

    Manchester, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    70 citations

  8. Indiana University

    Bloomington, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    126 citations

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Venues

  1. Man

    3 publications · 2.8K citations

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  3. Environmental Education Research

    2 publications · 48 citations

    2

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  4. Science Education

    2 publications · 87 citations

    2

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  5. Journal of Cleaner Production

    2 publications · 47 citations

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