Of Hoarding and Housekeeping

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Of Hoarding and Housekeeping is written by Sasha Newell and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1805393855 (ISBN 10) and 9781805393856 (ISBN 13).

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.