Out-of-place : Shame, Bodies, Places
In this article, I argue for the positivity of shame, which is to say that shame produces effects that must be understood as simultaneously cultural, social, psychological and physiological. In turn this demands new ways of representing anthropological experience. I enlist ideas developed by Bourdieu and Mauss, and extend them through a consideration of other writers, fictional and academic. I argue for the necessity of telling stories and telling them differently if we are to be up to the challenges of shame.