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An order of distinction (or, how to tell a collection from a hoard)

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ID2391127
AuthorsKatie Kilroy-Marac (University of Toronto Scarborough), Katie Kilroy‐marac (University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume23
Issue1
Pages20-38
Publication date2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183517729428
OpenAlexW2752647297
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited19

What is the difference between a collection and a hoard? This article draws upon an array of sources - from the DSM-V and current psychiatric research on hoarding, to recent media stories and artist Song Dong's Waste Not (2009), to the author's own participant observation with the Toronto Hoarding Coalition and the 21 ethnographic interviews she conducted with professional home organizers in the Greater Toronto Area between 2014 and 2015 - to examine how popular and psychiatric discourses that distinguish collecting and hoarding reveal a complex set of rules about what constitutes the healthy and moral ordering, organization and arrangement of one's material possessions in contemporary life. In an age of seemingly limitless possibilities for accumulation, the author argues that it is not just the fact of having things that stands as a matter of distinction. One must also demonstrate an active engagement in practices related to the curation and management of one's object world

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Hoard · Hoarding (animal behavior · Media studies · Object (grammar · Order (exchange · Participant observation · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Art History and Market Analysis · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Ecology

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Unique citing works12
Citations per year1,5
Citation span2018 - 2026 (9)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 12
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