Contemporary collecting: objects, practices, and the fate of things

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Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 in a World 1. Marcus Boon, Meditations in an Emergency: On the Apparent Destruction of My mp3 2. Matthew James Vechinski, Collecting, Curating, and the Magic Circle of Ownership in a Postmaterial Culture 3. Phillip Hutchison, Searching for Cap'n Ernie's Treasure Chest: and Sharing the Lost History of Live Local Television Genres Part 2 Changing Relationships with Things 4. David Banash, Virtual Life and the Value of Objects: Nostalgia, Distinction, and in the Twenty-First Century 5. Daniel DeChaine, Memory, Desire, and the Good Collector in PEZhead Culture 6. William Davies King, Suited for Nothing: Second Hand 7. Stanley Cavell, World As Things: Thoughts On Part 3 and Identity, Personal and Political 8. Stephen A. Andon, From the Attic to the Mallpark: A Collection's Transition from Private to Public in a New Professional Baseball Stadium 9. Mechtild Widrich, Collecting 'History in the Making': The Privatization of Propaganda in National Socialist Cigarette Cards 10. Terri Baker, 'The record of a life': Nation and Narrative in Victorian Women's Collections Part 4 Practices and Cultural Hierarchies 11. Sophie Thomas, Distraction and Display: the Curiosity Cabinet and the Romantic Museum. 12. Mary Titus, Collection and Parody: Taliesin and House on the Rock 13. Kevin M. Moist, Record as Cultural Anthropology Bibliography Contributor Biographies