Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of ThingsKevin M. Moist, David Banash Scarecrow Press, 2013 M05 9 - 292 páginas While the importance of collections has been evident in the sciences and humanities for several centuries, the social and cultural significance of collecting practices is now receiving serious attention as well. As reflected in programs like Antiques Roadshow and American Pickers, and websites such as eBay, collecting has had a consistent and growing presence in popular culture. In tandem with popular collecting, institutions are responding to changes in the collecting environment, as library catalogs go online and museums use new technologies to help generate attendance for their exhibits. In Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things, Kevin M. Moist and David Banash have assembled several essays that examine collecting practices on both a personal and professional level. These essays situate collectors and collections in a contemporary context and also show how our changing world finds new meaning in the legacy of older collections. Arranged by such themes as “Collecting in a Virtual World,” “Changing Relationships with Things,” “Collecting and Identity—Personal and Political,” and “Collecting Practices and Cultural Hierarchies,” these essays help illuminate the role of objects in our lives. Covering a breadth of interdisciplinary perspectives and subjects—from PEZ candy dispensers and trading cards to sports memorabilia and music—Contemporary Collecting will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, anthropology, popular culture studies, sociology, art history, and more. |
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Collecting and Sharing the Lost History of Live Local Television Genres | 31 |
PartII CHANGING RELATIONSHIPSWITH THINGS | 53 |
Nostalgia Distinction and Collecting in the TwentyFirst Century | 55 |
Ch05 Memory Desire and the Good Collector in PEZhead Culture | 67 |
Collecting Secondhand | 81 |
Collecting Thoughts on Collecting | 99 |
Nation and Narrative in Victorian Womens Collections | 173 |
PartIV COLLECTING PRACTICES ANDCULTURAL HIERARCHIES | 193 |
The Curiosity Cabinet and the Romantic Museum | 195 |
Taliesin and House on the Rock | 213 |
Ch13 Record Collecting as Cultural Anthropology | 229 |
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About the Editors | 273 |
PartIII COLLECTING AND IDENTITYPERSONAL AND POLITICAL | 131 |
A Collections Transition from Private to Public in a New Professional Baseball Stadium | 133 |
The Privatization of Propaganda in National Socialist Cigarette Cards | 151 |
About the Contributors | 275 |
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