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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.

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Author:   Isabel Bredenbröker ,  Christina Hanzen ,  Felix Kotzur
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
ISBN:  

9789088909214

ISBN 10:   9088909210
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   31 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Hans Peter Hahn Introduction We have never been clean. Towards an interdisciplinary discourse about cleaning and value Isabel Bredenbroeker, Christina Hanzen, Felix Kotzur Disciplinary reflections 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 Contexts and Places The Last Bath: Cleaning Practices and the Production of 'Good Death' in an Ewe Town Isabel Bredenbroeker The cultural aspect of cleaning in archaeology - a case study from the late Neolithic site of Fistikli Hoeyuk Georg Cyrus CARPE Dirt, Disease, and Detritus: Roman Sanitation and its Value System Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow Bodies, Objects and Personal Hygiene A matter of representation - personal hygiene in Eastern Zhou-dynasty China (771-256 BCE) Catrin Kost Impurity and purification: multi-layered conceptions of cleaning in Central Asian burial rituals Jeanine Dagyeli Your Clothes Should Be Clean! Your Head Should Be Washed! Body Cleaning and Social Inclusion in the Epic of Gilgamesh Ainsely Hawthorn Social practices and politics 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 Kramer Cleaning up the past Mareike Spath Artistic contributions Chrischa Oswald - Mother Tongue Kerstin Gottschalk - Mehl, Salz und Wasser zu einem Teig verarbeitet und auf die Spiegeloberflache aufgetragen, Groesse variabel Andreas Koch - Duschvorhang (Shower curtain) Robert Schittko und Nikolaus Kockel - Performance Wagehe Raufi - In between contemporary stones Anna Langgartner - Contemporary Art and the Gaze of an Archaeologist: A interpretative attempt of decay and lost evidence Mia Bencun - Bruise 13

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