This text highlights the significance of collecting in relation to the cultural process, contemporary attitudes to material culture, and collecting as postmodern activity.
This book examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere.
This volume focuses on the nature and study of collectors and collecting from 1960 onwards.... Læs mere
The study of collection is a growth point in cultural studies, conceived as a study of practice, of the ways in which people make sense of the world by bringing elements together. This volume focuses on 19th- and earlier 20th-century collectors.