Contemporary collecting : objects, practices, and the fate of things
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 Collecting in a Virtual World 1. Marcus Boon, "Meditations in an Emergency: On the Apparent Destruction of My mp3 Collection" 2. Matthew James Vechinski, "Collecting, Curating, and the Magic Circle of Ownership in a Postmaterial Culture" 3. Phillip Hutchison, "Searching for Cap'n Ernie's Treasure Chest: Collecting and Sharing the Lost History of Live Local Television Genres" Part 2 Changing Relationships with Things 4. David Banash, "Virtual Life and the Value of Objects: Nostalgia, Distinction, and Collecting in the Twenty-First Century" 5. Daniel DeChaine, "Memory, Desire, and the "Good Collector" in PEZhead Culture" 6. William Davies King, "Suited for Nothing: Collecting Second Hand" 7. Stanley Cavell, "The World As Things: Collecting Thoughts On Collecting" Part 3 Collecting and Identity, Personal and Political 8. Stephen A. Andon, "From the Attic to the Mallpark: A Collection's Transition from Private to Public in a New Professional Baseball Stadium" 9. Mechtild Widrich, "Collecting 'History in the Making': The Privatization of Propaganda in National Socialist Cigarette Cards" 10. Terri Baker, "'The record of a life': Nation and Narrative in Victorian Women's Collections" Part 4 Collecting Practices and Cultural Hierarchies 11. Sophie Thomas, "Distraction and Display: the Curiosity Cabinet and the Romantic Museum." 12. Mary Titus, "Collection and Parody: Taliesin and House on the Rock" 13. Kevin M. Moist, "Record Collecting as Cultural Anthropology" Bibliography Contributor Biographies