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Introduction: House/Keeping
Sasha Newell
Part I: Food Storage and Family Values
Chapter 1. Food Storage and the Making of Potato Kin in Andean Houses
Olivia AngeĢ
Chapter 2. Making Space for Onions: Material Production and Social Reproduction in Rural India
Tanya Matthan
Part II: Domestic Accumulation and Disorder
Chapter 3. The “Stuffing” of Kinship: Containing Clutter and Expanding Relatedness in U.S. Homes
Sasha Newell
Chapter 4. Topoanalysis: Hoarding, Memory, and the Materialization of Kinship
Katie Kilroy-Marac
Chapter 5. Locating Hoarding: How Spatial Concepts Shape Disorders in Japan and the Anglophone World
Fabio Gygi
Part III: Decluttering and Minimalist Aesthetics
Chapter 6. Decluttering the House, Purify Yourself: Women Discarding Objects andSpiritualizing Everyday Lifein Buenos Aires (Argentina)
María Florencia BlancoEsmoris
Chapter 7. The American Garage Sale: Liberating Space and Creating Kin
Gretchen M. Herrmann
Chapter 8. Minimalist Mortality: Decluttering as a Practice of Death Acceptance
Hannah Gould
Part IV: Holding on to Rubbish: Trash and Transmutation
Chapter 9. “It’s Not Waste, It’s Diamonds!”: Recovery Practices and Public Waste Management in Garoua and Maroua (Cameroon)
Émilie Guitard
Chapter 10. Where Would We be Without Rubbish?
Michael Thompson
Conclusion: The Shape of Things to Come
Daniel Miller
Index
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective
Edited by Sasha Newell
288 pages, 16 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-092-3 Hb Published (October 2023)
eISBN 978-1-80539-385-6 eBook