Of Hoarding and Housekeeping: Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective

Contents\nList of Figures\nIntroduction. House/Keeping\nPart I Food Storage and Family Values\n1. Food Abundance and the Storage of Tuberous Kin: The Houses of the Potato Park in the Peruvian Andes\n2. Making Space for Onions: Material Production and Social Reproduction in Rural India\nPart II Domestic Accumulation and Disorder\n3. The “Stuffing” of Kinship: Containing Clutter and Expanding Relatedness in US Homes\n4. Topoanalysis: Hoarding, Memory, and the Materialization of Kinship\n5. Locating Hoarding: How Spatial Concepts Shape Disorders in Japan and the Anglophone World\nPart III Decluttering and Minimalist Aesthetics\n6. Decluttering the House, Purifying the Self: Women Discarding Objects and Spiritualizing Everyday Life in Buenos Aires (Argentina)\n7. The American Garage Sale: Liberating Space and Creating Kin\n8. Minimalist Mortality: Decluttering as a Practice of Death Acceptance\nPart IV Holding on to Rubbish: Trash and Transmutation\n9. “It’s Not Waste, It’s Diamonds!”: Recovery Practices and Public Waste Management in Garoua and Maroua (Cameroon)\n10. Where Would We Be Without Rubbish?\nAfterword. The Shape of Things to Come\nIndex