Waste and Garbage as Time Travel

Authors

  • Lynn Åkesson Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Division of Ethnology, Lund University, Sweden

Abstract

For waste and garbage to become suitable vehicles for time travel, some characteristics need to be highlighted, and some to be played down. This paper focuses on the capacity of waste to transform and slide along a grading scale of worthless – valuable – invaluable. It will also be argued that it makes sense to distinguish between clean and unclean waste, and that the later can be transformed into the first via ritual practices.

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Published

2010-01-01

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