Cleaning and value : interdisciplinary investigations / edited by Isabel Bredenbröker, Christina Hanzen, Felix Kotzur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanzen, Christina, editor.

Bredenbröker, Isabel, editor.

Kotzur, Felix, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sanitation.

Hygiene.

Applied anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2020]

Summary:

This volume combines scholarly contributions on the relation between values and cleaning processes in different places, cultures and times. The core disciplines are archaeology and anthropology with interdisciplinary additions from sinology, classic philology, philosophy, sociology and fine arts. The individual contributions are the proceedings of a workshop organised by members of the DFG graduate school 1576 "Value and Equivalence" at Frankfurt University in June 2017. Among the contributors are researchers from Yale University, University of Cambridge, Brandeis University and Frankfurt University.The editors do not intend to establish a theoretical concept of cleaning as a paradigm in academic discourse. Instead, our aim is to test the term's potential for moral and practice-related implications from an interdisciplinary perspective. We understand the term cleaning as referring to a conglomerate of practices. These are rooted in social norms, morals and organisational structures. Due to the inclusive multiplicity of the term it functions as a soft concept. Aspects of materiality, social organisation, creation and conservation of value, devaluation as well as destruction come into play.

Contents:

Intro

Contributors

Editor's note

Preface

Hans P. Hahn

Paper Abstracts

Section 1: Editorial

We have never been Clean - Towards an Interdisciplinary Discourse about Cleaning and Value

Isabel Bredenbröker, Christina Hanzen, Felix Kotzur

Section 2:

Archaeology and Cleaning: Some Reflections on the Archaeological Process

Ulrich Veit

How is Dirt possible? On the Philosophy of Dirt, Cleanliness and Refuse

Olli Lagerspetz

Section 3:

The Last Bath: Cleaning Practices and the Production of 'Good Death' in an Ewe Town

Isabel Bredenbröker

The Cultural Aspect of Cleaning in Archaeology - a Case Study from the late Neolithic Site of Fıstıklı Höyük

Georg Cyrus

CARPE Dirt, Disease, and Detritus: Roman Sanitation and its Value System

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow

Section 4:

A Matter of Representation - Personal Hygiene in Eastern Zhou-dynasty China (771‑256 BCE)

Catrin Kost

Why is Death defiling? Considering death-related Pollution and Cleaning in Central Asia

Jeanine Dağyeli

Your Clothes Should Be Clean! Your Head Should Be Washed! Body Cleaning and Social Inclusion in the Epic of Gilgamesh

Ainsley Hawthorn

Section 5:

Shaking out the Tablecloth - Uzbek Hospitality and the Construction of Boundaries of Belonging

Sebile Yapici

The Cleansing of a Political System: Obliterations, Burials and 'Reuse' of Palaces and Seats of Power in Central Italy (Seventh-Fifth centuries BCE)

Robinson Peter Krämer

Cleaning up the Past

Mareike Späth

Section 6:

Growths: Contemporary Art between Cleaning and Value

Mother Tongue (2013) Interview

I: Isabel Bredenbröker, C: Chrischa Oswald

Mehl, Salz und Wasser zu einem Teig verarbeitet und auf die Spiegeloberfläche aufgetragen (2017).

Flour, salt and water, prepared as a dough and applied to the mirror surface, size varies (2017)

Kerstin Gottschalk

Duschvorhang (2005/2015)

Andreas Koch

Cleaning and Value

Robert Schittko, Nikolaus Kockel

In between contemporary stones (2016)

Wagehe Raufi

Contemporary Art and the Gaze of an Archaeologist: An Interpretative Attempt of Decay and Lost Evidence

Anna Langgartner

Bruise 13 (2017)

Mia Bencun

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Notes:

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ISBN:

90-8890-923-7

OCLC:

1198976083