Of Hoarding and Housekeeping

Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective

288 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781805390923
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.10.2023
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Sasha Newell