David R. Inglis

"are marshalled in the service of satire against powerful individuals and s, to degrade and belittle them; excreta are not on the whole used as images of celebration and festivity ..."

"If someone was to ask us to describe our , we might be hard pressed to find anything to talk about that we might say was at all interesting, because daily life suggests routine, and routine by definition involves things that are not out of the ordinary."

"... most sociologists who would want to talk about wine for one reason or another probably have some personal interest in it. Why spend so much time building up a for something you cannot stand, or which—if you are an alcohol-abstainer—you are opposed to on moral or some other grounds? After all, if you publicly present yourself as an analyst of wine, you are publicly associating yourself with it, and audiences will read you as linked to wine in some way. (The hostile reception to wine talks I have given, by students who seemed to be of a religious fundamentalist persuasion, is a case in point.)"