Overview

Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective, and decluttering from an aesthetic and ecological one, while little work has been done to think about the cultural and global economic aspects of these phenomena. Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering using case studies from the likes of the US, Japan, India, and Argentina. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.

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Author:   Sasha Newell
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805390923

ISBN 10:   1805390929
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   13 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Illustrations Introduction: House/Keeping Sasha Newell Part I: Food Storage and Family Values Chapter 1. Food Storage and the Making of Potato Kin in Andean Houses Olivia Ange Chapter 2. Making Space for Onions: Material Production and Social Reproduction in Rural India Tanya Matthan Part II: Domestic Accumulation and Disorder Chapter 3. The Stuffing of Kinship: Containing Clutter and Expanding Relatedness in U.S. Homes Sasha Newell Chapter 4. Topoanalysis: Hoarding, Memory, and the Materialization of Kinship Katie Kilroy-Marac Chapter 5. Locating Hoarding: How Spatial Concepts Shape Disorders in Japan and the Anglophone World Fabio Gygi Part III: Decluttering and Minimalist Aesthetics Chapter 6. Decluttering the House, Purify Yourself: Women Discarding Objects andSpiritualizing Everyday Lifein Buenos Aires (Argentina) Maria Florencia BlancoEsmoris Chapter 7. The American Garage Sale: Liberating Space and Creating Kin Gretchen M. Herrmann Chapter 8. Minimalist Mortality: Decluttering as a Practice of Death Acceptance Hannah Gould Part IV: Holding on to Rubbish: Trash and Transmutation Chapter 9. It's Not Waste, It's Diamonds! : Recovery Practices and Public Waste Management in Garoua and Maroua (Cameroon) Emilie Guitard Chapter 10. Where Would We be Without Rubbish? Michael Thompson Conclusion: The Shape of Things to Come Daniel Miller Index

Reviews

This is an exciting endeavor ... linked to some of the most pressing issues in the field of anthropology today. The scholarship is excellent, and ethnographic research represents a diverse breadth of geographical areas and analytical perspectives. * Anne Allison,Duke University The collection provides a timely discussion of a topic that up to now has been marginal to anthropological writing, and yet is clearly critical to domestic practice on a global scale. * Pauline Garvey, Maynooth University

Author Information

Sasha Newell is Associate Professor and Director of the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporain at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He is author of The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Cote d'Ivoire (University of Chicago Press, 2012), which won the Amaury Talbot prize.

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