Of Hoarding and Housekeeping

Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-092-3 (ISBN)

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Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering. 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.

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 cases from a variety of countries including US, Japan, India, Cameroon, 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.

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

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 Angé

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)

María 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)

Émilie Guitard

Chapter 10. Where Would We be Without Rubbish?

Michael Thompson

Conclusion: The Shape of Things to Come

Daniel Miller

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
Zusatzinfo	16 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-80539-092-9 / 1805390929
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-092-3 / 9781805390923
Zustand	Neuware