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

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2391127
AutoresKatie Kilroy-Marac (University of Toronto Scarborough), Katie Kilroy‐marac (University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen23
Número1
Páginas20-38
Fecha de publicación2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183517729428
OpenAlexW2752647297
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas19

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