Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective
Published on 13. October 2023
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-80539-092-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"This is an exciting endeavor ... linked to some of the most pressing issues in the field of anthropology today. The scholarship is excellent, and ethnographic research represents a diverse breadth of geographical areas and analytical perspectives." * Anne Allison,Duke University"The collection provides a timely discussion of a topic that up to now has been marginal to anthropological writing, and yet is clearly critical to domestic practice on a global scale." * Pauline Garvey, Maynooth University
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Library binding
Illustrations
16 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
571 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80539-092-3 (9781805390923)
DOI
10.3167/9781805390923
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Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective
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Sasha Newell
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective
E-Book
10/2023
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€22.49
Available for download
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Sasha Newell is Associate Professor and Director of the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporain at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He is author of The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Cote d'Ivoire (University of Chicago Press, 2012), which won the Amaury Talbot prize.
Content
Illustrations
Introduction: House/Keeping
Sasha Newell
Part I: Food Storage and Family Values
Chapter 1. Food Storage and the Making of Potato Kin in Andean Houses
Olivia Ange?
Chapter 2. Making Space for Onions: Material Production and Social Reproduction in Rural India
Tanya Matthan
Part II: Domestic Accumulation and Disorder
Chapter 3. The "Stuffing" of Kinship: Containing Clutter and Expanding Relatedness in U.S. Homes
Sasha Newell
Chapter 4. Topoanalysis: Hoarding, Memory, and the Materialization of Kinship
Katie Kilroy-Marac
Chapter 5. Locating Hoarding: How Spatial Concepts Shape Disorders in Japan and the Anglophone World
Fabio Gygi
Part III: Decluttering and Minimalist Aesthetics
Chapter 6. Decluttering the House, Purify Yourself: Women Discarding Objects andSpiritualizing Everyday Lifein Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Maria Florencia BlancoEsmoris
Chapter 7. The American Garage Sale: Liberating Space and Creating Kin
Gretchen M. Herrmann
Chapter 8. Minimalist Mortality: Decluttering as a Practice of Death Acceptance
Hannah Gould
Part IV: Holding on to Rubbish: Trash and Transmutation
Chapter 9. "It's Not Waste, It's Diamonds!": Recovery Practices and Public Waste Management in Garoua and Maroua (Cameroon)
Emilie Guitard
Chapter 10. Where Would We be Without Rubbish?
Michael Thompson
Conclusion: The Shape of Things to Come
Daniel Miller
Index
Introduction: House/Keeping
Sasha Newell
Part I: Food Storage and Family Values
Chapter 1. Food Storage and the Making of Potato Kin in Andean Houses
Olivia Ange?
Chapter 2. Making Space for Onions: Material Production and Social Reproduction in Rural India
Tanya Matthan
Part II: Domestic Accumulation and Disorder
Chapter 3. The "Stuffing" of Kinship: Containing Clutter and Expanding Relatedness in U.S. Homes
Sasha Newell
Chapter 4. Topoanalysis: Hoarding, Memory, and the Materialization of Kinship
Katie Kilroy-Marac
Chapter 5. Locating Hoarding: How Spatial Concepts Shape Disorders in Japan and the Anglophone World
Fabio Gygi
Part III: Decluttering and Minimalist Aesthetics
Chapter 6. Decluttering the House, Purify Yourself: Women Discarding Objects andSpiritualizing Everyday Lifein Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Maria Florencia BlancoEsmoris
Chapter 7. The American Garage Sale: Liberating Space and Creating Kin
Gretchen M. Herrmann
Chapter 8. Minimalist Mortality: Decluttering as a Practice of Death Acceptance
Hannah Gould
Part IV: Holding on to Rubbish: Trash and Transmutation
Chapter 9. "It's Not Waste, It's Diamonds!": Recovery Practices and Public Waste Management in Garoua and Maroua (Cameroon)
Emilie Guitard
Chapter 10. Where Would We be Without Rubbish?
Michael Thompson
Conclusion: The Shape of Things to Come
Daniel Miller
Index