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    "description": "<p>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.<br />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.<br />Contents:<br />Preface<br />Hans Peter Hahn<br />Introduction<br />We have never been clean. Towards an interdisciplinary discourse about cleaning and value<br />Isabel Bredenbr&ouml;ker, Christina Hanzen, Felix Kotzur<br />Disciplinary reflections<br />Archaeology and Cleaning: Some reflections on the archaeological process<br />Ulrich Veit<br />How is dirt possible? On the philosophy of dirt, cleanliness and refuse<br />Olli Lagerspetz<br />Contexts and Places<br />The Last Bath: Cleaning Practices and the Production of 'Good Death' in an Ewe Town<br />Isabel Bredenbr&ouml;ker<br />The cultural aspect of cleaning in archaeology - a case study from the late Neolithic site of F?st?kl? H&ouml;y&uuml;k<br />Georg Cyrus<br />CARPE Dirt, Disease, and Detritus: Roman Sanitation and its Value System<br />Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow<br />Bodies, Objects and Personal Hygiene<br />A matter of representation - personal hygiene in Eastern Zhou-dynasty China (771-256 BCE)<br />Catrin Kost<br />Impurity and purification: multi-layered conceptions of cleaning in Central Asian burial rituals<br />Jeanine Dagyeli<br />Your Clothes Should Be Clean! Your Head Should Be Washed!<br />Body Cleaning and Social Inclusion in the Epic of Gilgamesh<br />Ainsely Hawthorn<br />Social practices and politics<br />Shaking out the Tablecloth - Uzbek Hospitality and the Construction of Boundaries of Belonging<br />Sebile Yapici<br />The Cleansing of a Political System: Obliterations, Burials and 'Reuse' of Palaces and Seats of Power in Central Italy (Seventh-Fifth centuries BCE)<br />Robinson Kr&auml;mer<br />Cleaning up the past<br />Mareike Sp&auml;th<br />Artistic contributions<br />Chrischa Oswald - Mother Tongue<br />Kerstin Gottschalk - Mehl, Salz und Wasser zu einem Teig verarbeitet und auf die Spiegeloberfl&auml;che aufgetragen, Gr&ouml;&szlig;e variabel<br />Andreas Koch - Duschvorhang (Shower curtain)<br />Robert Schittko und Nikolaus Kockel - Performance<br />Wagehe Raufi - In between contemporary stones<br />Anna Langgartner - Contemporary Art and the Gaze of an Archaeologist: A interpretative attempt of decay and lost evidence<br />Mia Bencun - Bruise 13</p>",
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