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Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Collecting in a Virtual World
Chapter 1: Meditations in an Emergency: On the Apparent Destruction of My MP3 Collection
Chapter 2: Collecting, Curating, and the Magic Circle of Ownership in a Postmaterial Culture
Chapter 3: Searching for Cap’n Ernie’s Treasure Chest: Collecting and Sharing the Lost History of Live Local Television Genres
Part II: Changing Relationships with Things
Chapter 4: Virtual Life and the Value of Objects: Nostalgia, Distinction, and Collecting in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 5: Memory, Desire, and the “Good Collector” in PEZhead Culture
Chapter 6: Suited for Nothing: Collecting Secondhand
Chapter 7: The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting
Part III: Collecting and Identity, Personal and Political
Chapter 8: From the Attic to the Mallpark: A Collection’s Transition from Private to Public in a New Professional Baseball Stadium
Chapter 9: Collecting “History in the Making”: The Privatization of Propaganda in National Socialist Cigarette Cards
Chapter 10: “The Record of a Life”: Nation and Narrative in Victorian Women’s Collections
Part IV: Collecting Practices and Cultural Hierarchies
Chapter 11: Distraction and Display: The Curiosity Cabinet and the Romantic Museum
Chapter 12: Collection and Parody: Taliesin and House on the Rock
Chapter 13: Record Collecting as Cultural Anthropology
Bibliography
About the Editors
About the Contributors
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