Of Hoarding and Housekeeping

<p> Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective and decluttering from an aesthetic and ecological one while little work has been done to think about the cultural and global economic aspects of these phenomena. <em>Of Hoarding and Housekeeping</em> provides an anthropological global and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering using cases from a variety of countries including US Japan India Cameroon and Argentina. Focusing on the house with careful attention to material flows in and out this book examines practices of accumulation storage decluttering and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.</p>