Passion and Profit
Subtitle: Towards an Anthropology of Collecting (Comparative Anthropological Studies in Society, Cosmology and Politics)
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Published: February 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9783825892586
Subjects: Anthropology; Antiques & Collectables; Cultural studies; Anthropology - General; Social Science; Sociology
Description: What is the cultural phenomenon of collecting all about? What moves the collector? Discussed are both elitist cultural objects and non-elitist such a mass producted items. Book contributes to the collecting literature from an anthropological point of view.