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Product Description: This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things. The first section of the book discusses the interpretation of objects, setting the philosophical and historical context of object interpretation...read more
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9780415112888 | Routledge, December 1, 1994, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.
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9780415112895 | Routledge, December 1, 1994, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.
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9780807845103 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $46.50
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9780807821664 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $65.00
Product Description: On Collecting examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere.Susan Pearce looks at the way we collect and what this tells us about ourselves and our society. She also explores the psychology of collecting: why do we bestow value on certain objects and how does this add meaning to our lives? Do men and women collect differently? How do we use objects to construct our identity?This book breaks new ground in its analysis of our relationship to the material world...read more
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9780415075602 | Routledge, June 1, 1995, cover price $170.00
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9780415075619 | Routledge, June 21, 1999, cover price $56.95 | About this edition: On Collecting examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere.
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9781859284186 | Scolar Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $154.95
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9781859284179 | Scolar Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $149.95
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9781859284193 | Scolar Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $154.95
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9781859284209 | Scolar Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $149.95
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9780500515945 | Thames & Hudson, October 1, 2011, cover price $45.00
9780500510919 | Thames & Hudson, November 1, 2002, cover price $75.00
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9781419705540 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 2012, cover price $45.00
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