Introduction to Hoardiculture | Stanford Humanities Center
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Introduction to Hoardiculture | Stanford Humanities Center
Tom Stafford, “Why We Love to Hoard … and How You Can Overcome It,” BBC News, July 17, 2012, www.bbc.com/future/story/20120717-why-we-love-to-hoard
I was struck by how the deprivations that people experience can lead to eccentric kinds of compensation—like the hoarding syndrome of some of the poor.
“[…] the glass of anthropological knowledge has become darkened by despondency, dystopian, and extinction theories. The earth is exhausted, and ontologies are dying. Many anthropological monographs read as funeral rites for communities. Alternatively, anthropologists offer hyper-micro studies of specific communities and their life worlds that still
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