Contemporary collecting
Subtitle: objects, practices, and the fate of things
By: edited by Kevin M. Moist, David Banash
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780810891135; 9780810891142
Subjects: Social aspects; Collectors and collecting; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Collecting in a Virtual World; title: Meditations in an Emergency : On the Apparent Destruction of My mp3 Collection / Marcus Boon; title: Matthew  Collecting, Curating, and the Magic Circle of Ownership in a Postmaterial Culture / James Vechinski; title: Searching for Cap'n Ernie's Treasure Chest : Collecting and Sharing the Lost History of Live Local Television Genres / Phillip Hutchison; title: Part 2. Changing Relationships with Things; title: Virtual Life and the Value of Objects : Nostalgia, Distinction, and Collecting in the Twenty-First Century / David Banash; title: Memory, Desire, and the "Good Collector" in PEZhead Culture / Daniel DeChaine; title: Suited for Nothing : Collecting Second Hand / William Davies King; title: The World As Things : Collecting Thoughts On Collecting / Stanley Cavell; title: Part 3. Collecting and Identity, Personal and Political; title: - From the Attic to the Mallpark : A Collection's Transition from Private to Public in a New Professional Baseball Stadium / Stephen A. Andon; title: Collecting "History in the Making" : The Privatization of Propaganda in National Socialist Cigarette Cards / Mechtild Widrich; title: "The record of a life" : Nation and Narrative in Victorian Women's Collections / Terri Baker; title: Part 4. Collecting Practices and Cultural Hierarchies; title: Distraction and Display : the Curiosity Cabinet and the Romantic Museum / Sophie Thomas; title: Collection and Parody : Taliesin and House on the Rock / Mary Titus; title: Record Collecting as Cultural Anthropology / Kevin M. Moist.