Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Collecting stuff is often seen as a postive and normal thing to do, unless the collecting and the collections affect lives negatively. If a collector’s family and friends understand the collections as unnecessary or even garbarge, or if collecting is seen as interfering with the collector’s life, the idea of collecting is transferred to a grey area, and interpreted more as a negative and even pathological activity. Collecting mania is now a diagnosis, and a number of TV companies broadcast programmes on hoarding. This study discusses different kinds of collecting, and one kind is presented in the TV series Hoarding. Buried Alive. The main focus is within the grey area of collecting, where negotiations on normality and pathology are taking place.
Author: Tove Ingebjørg Fjell
Institution: University of Bergen
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4392124530