Of hoarding and housekeeping

• Titel: Of hoarding and housekeeping
• Titelzusatz: material kinship and domestic space in anthropological perspective
• Mitwirkende: Newell, Sasha [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Sasha Newell
• Verlagsort: New York ; Oxford
• Verlag: Berghahn
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: viii, 279 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Material mediations ; Volume 13
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-092-3
• DOI: doi:10.3167/9781805390923
• Schlagwörter: (s)Haushalt / (s)Vorratswirtschaft / (s)Ethnologie
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Of hoarding and housekeeping. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2023
• K10plus-PPN: 1857603389

Abstract

Klappentext: "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"--