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Of Hoarding and Housekeeping: Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective

AUTEUR
Sasha Newell

ANNÉE
2023

ISBN
978-1-80539-092-3

LIEU
New York - Oxford

EDITION
Berghahn Books

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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 cases from a variety of countries including US, Japan, India, Cameroon, 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.
Mis à jour le 14 novembre 2023