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The Scholar as Squirrel : Everyday Collecting in Academia

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Summary, in English

This paper looks at collecting practices in the everyday world of universities. How do scholars turn into hoarding squirrels, creating their own archives? My focus is on routines and technologies, which deal with storage and order as well as retrieving and discarding of research materials.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

17-33

Publication/Series

Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie

Volume

2015

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Inst. für Volkskunde/Kulturanthropologie, Univ. Hamburg

Topic

  • Ethnology

Keywords

  • collecting
  • everyday academic life
  • routines
  • storage
  • discarding

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2365-1016