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reify
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reify - To regard (something abstract) as a material thing.


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unmasking the gap between ancient and modern worlds) but identifies three problematic areas: a tendency to over-use abstract models, a static way of understanding culture, and a bent toward reification of ancient literary material.
The reification of political principles, new ways of locating power in bodies and space, had led to a situation in which political identities and political rights proceed power.
This reification of documents, electronic or print, may be a vestige of the mystery of literacy, the consideration of an act as official only when it is "put into writing.
 
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