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Cleaning: A Cultural Technique

Cleaning: A Cultural Technique

Stummerer, Sonja
Hablesreiter, Martin
Bunny, Honey And

Hardcover

Art HistoryGeneral PhotographyGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $49.99

ISBN10: 3422804080
ISBN13: 9783422804081
Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag
Published: Sep 4 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 2.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 10.10 Depth: 10.20
Language: English

Cleaning takes a closer look at everyday life in Western societies. Culture takes place every day: in every household, with every bite, with every piece of clothing; it is negotiated through the products we choose and how we use them. The book sets out to highlight cleaning as a cultural technique through which culture is lived and nature is vanquished, through which hierarchies are created, social rankings manifested, and traditions implemented. Addressing dirt and cleanliness, cleaning agents, equipment, and machines, (clean) surfaces and polluted environments, it interrogates the unwritten cultural rules around cleanliness and order, asking what they reveal about our beliefs and value systems. In 2020, the original German-language edition of this book was published under the title Putzen. Eine Kulturtechnik. It triggered tremendous media coverage in German-speaking countries.

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