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Contemporary collecting : objects, practices, and the fate of things / edited by Kevin M. Moist, David Banash.
Penn Museum Library AM231 .C66 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collectors and collecting.
- Collectors and collecting--Social aspects.
- Collectors and collecting--Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Collecting in a Virtual World
- Meditations in an Emergency : On the Apparent Destruction of My mp3 Collection / Marcus Boon
- Matthew Collecting, Curating, and the Magic Circle of Ownership in a Postmaterial Culture / James Vechinski
- Searching for Cap'n Ernie's Treasure Chest : Collecting and Sharing the Lost History of Live Local Television Genres / Phillip Hutchison
- Part 2. Changing Relationships with Things
- Virtual Life and the Value of Objects : Nostalgia, Distinction, and Collecting in the Twenty-First Century / David Banash
- Memory, Desire, and the "Good Collector" in PEZhead Culture / Daniel DeChaine
- Suited for Nothing : Collecting Second Hand / William Davies King
- The World As Things : Collecting Thoughts On Collecting / Stanley Cavell
- Part 3. Collecting and Identity, Personal and Political
- From the Attic to the Mallpark : A Collection's Transition from Private to Public in a New Professional Baseball Stadium / Stephen A. Andon
- Collecting "History in the Making" : The Privatization of Propaganda in National Socialist Cigarette Cards / Mechtild Widrich
- "The record of a life" : Nation and Narrative in Victorian Women's Collections / Terri Baker
- Part 4. Collecting Practices and Cultural Hierarchies
- Distraction and Display : the Curiosity Cabinet and the Romantic Museum / Sophie Thomas
- Collection and Parody : Taliesin and House on the Rock / Mary Titus
- Record Collecting as Cultural Anthropology / Kevin M. Moist.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0810891131
- 9780810891135
- 9780810891142
- 081089114X
- OCLC:
- 823209413
- Publisher Number:
- 99954159897
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