Of Hoarding and Housekeeping

Sasha Newell is Associate Professor and Director of the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporain at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is author of The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire (University of Chicago Press, 2012), which won the Amaury Talbot prize. 

Illustrations



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 Angé



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