Contemporary Collecting
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Contemporary Collecting

Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things

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eBook - ePub

Contemporary Collecting

Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780810891142
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: Collecting in a Virtual World
  5. Chapter 1: Meditations in an Emergency: On the Apparent Destruction of My MP3 Collection
  6. Chapter 2: Collecting, Curating, and the Magic Circle of Ownership in a Postmaterial Culture
  7. Chapter 3: Searching for Cap’n Ernie’s Treasure Chest: Collecting and Sharing the Lost History of Live Local Television Genres
  8. Part II: Changing Relationships with Things
  9. Chapter 4: Virtual Life and the Value of Objects: Nostalgia, Distinction, and Collecting in the Twenty-First Century
  10. Chapter 5: Memory, Desire, and the “Good Collector” in PEZhead Culture
  11. Chapter 6: Suited for Nothing: Collecting Secondhand
  12. Chapter 7: The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting
  13. Part III: Collecting and Identity, Personal and Political
  14. Chapter 8: From the Attic to the Mallpark: A Collection’s Transition from Private to Public in a New Professional Baseball Stadium
  15. Chapter 9: Collecting “History in the Making”: The Privatization of Propaganda in National Socialist Cigarette Cards
  16. Chapter 10: “The Record of a Life”: Nation and Narrative in Victorian Women’s Collections
  17. Part IV: Collecting Practices and Cultural Hierarchies
  18. Chapter 11: Distraction and Display: The Curiosity Cabinet and the Romantic Museum
  19. Chapter 12: Collection and Parody: Taliesin and House on the Rock
  20. Chapter 13: Record Collecting as Cultural Anthropology
  21. Bibliography
  22. About the Editors
  23. About the Contributors