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Preface and Acknowledgements 1 • The Generative Possibilities of the Wrong Box

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Boxes: A Field Guide

Edited by Susanne Bauer, Martina Schlünder, Maria Rentetzi

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Publication date: 2020-08-12
ISBN: 9781912729012
DOI: http://doi.org/10.28938/9781912729012

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List of figures
Contributors
Boxing Practices
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introductions
1 • The Generative Possibilities of the Wrong Box
2 • The Epistemology of the Familiar: A Hymn to Pandora
3 • Navigation Tools for Studying Boxes: A User’s Manual
I • Trap
4 • Inscribing the Soul: Cerebral Ventricles as Symbolic and Material Boxes
5 • Better Shelter
6 • Slide Box: How to Stock Some Thousand Cancer Cases
7 • System Box (Tray) with Wasp
II • Juke
8 • Thinking Inside the Box: The Construction of Knowledge in a Miniature Seventeenth-Century Cabinet
9 • Musical Instrument Boxes. Hidden Information: Cases for Musical Instruments and Their Functions
10 • Boxing Crickets: A Taxonomy of Containers for Singing and Fighting Ensifera
III • Time
11 • Contesting the Box: Museums and Repatriation
12 • Archaeology and Cigarettes: ‘Ekphora’ and ‘Periphora’ of the Archaeological Identity through Cigarette Packs
13 • More than a Toy Box: Dandanah and the Sea of Stories
IV • Cargo
14 • The Ur-Box: Multispecies Take-off from Noah’s Ark to Animal Air Cargo
15 • Parcels Render Neglected People Visible
16 • Boxes, Infrastructure and the Materiality of Moral Relations: Aid and Respect after Cyclone Pam
V • Black
17 • ‘As Modern As Tomorrow’: The Medicine Cabinet
18 • The Green Minna: Transporting Police Detainees in Imperial Berlin
19 • Scaling Up from the Bench: Fermentation Tank
20 • Deep Time History: The Lure of the Black Box
VI • Text
21 • Panel and Frames: Toward a New Relationship between Text and Image in Academic Writing
22 • Analogue Privacy: The Paper Shredder as a Technology for Knowledge Destruction
VII • Ice
23 • Biobank Boxes: Technologies of Population
24 • The Magic of Dropbox, its Virtuality and Materiality
VIII • Anxiety
25 • Domestic Reservoirs: Managing Drinking Water in Taiwanese Households
26 • Keep Calm and Carry One: The Civilian Gas Mask Case and its Containment of British Emotions
27 • Cardboard Box: The Politics of Materiality
IX • Count
28 • Petri dish (boîte de Petri, Petrischale)
29 • Prussian Census Box: Moving and Freezing Data
30 • Black-Boxing Knowledge: Glass Dosimeters and Governmental Control
X • Mirror
31 • The Mirror Trap
32 • Shifting Medical Bottles: In Between Medical and Indigenous Worlds
33 • Guarding the Memory: Photographic Glass Plates Negatives’ Boxes
34 • Lousy Research: The History of Typhus Vaccine Production, 1915–1945
XI • Tool
35 • The Mechanic’s Toolbox and Tool Chest: A Nexus of the Personal and the Social
36 • Surgeons’ Chests from the Mary Rose
37 • Ruminations on an Electrotherapeutic Box
38 • Reliquary: A Box for a Relic
39 • The Research Box

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