Of hoarding and housekeeping: material kinship and domestic space in anthropological perspective

"Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective, and decluttering from an aesthetic and ecological one, while little work has been done to think about the cultural and global economic aspects of these phenomena. Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthr...

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Other Authors: Newell, Sasha (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn [2023]
Series:Material mediations Volume 13
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Summary:"Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective, and decluttering from an aesthetic and ecological one, while little work has been done to think about the cultural and global economic aspects of these phenomena. Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering using case studies from the likes of the US, Japan, India, and Argentina. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin"--
Item Description:Enthält Literaturangaben
Physical Description:viii, 279 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781805390923

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