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Bounia, Alexandra. "The nature of collecting in the Classical world : collections and collectors, c.100 BCE - 100 CE." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31160.

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Contrary to general traditional belief, the origins of collecting, as a systematic activity that refers to the satisfaction of symbolic rather than actual needs, was not an invention of the Renaissance. Collecting made its first appearance in European prehistory, was a subject of interest and debate for the ancient Greeks and Romans, and has been present continuously ever since. This thesis aims to address a gap in the history of collecting and to contribute to the discussion of its origins and nature through an analysis of collecting in the classical Graeco-Roman world. As a result, the subje

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Wills, David. "Cultural Mulch : an investigation into collectors who create collections of mass produced objects and of the potential significance of those objects in relation to consumer culture." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/8036.

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Collecting is an activity that stems from humankinds roots as hunters and gathers, when necessity rather than want, was key. This dissertation considers the strategies and motivations behind collecting in the 21st Century and what the significance is of collected objects. It considers the many guises, aims and reasons for collections being made, from the attainment of wealth and status, to the filling of personal voids, or the simple pleasures of belonging to a like-minded group of people. The dissertation charts contemporary influences in collecting behaviour, from an increased interest in ce

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Bracken, Susan Caroline. "Collectors and collecting in England c.1600-c.1660." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45343/.

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Samson, J. O. (James Oliver), and n/a. "Cultures of collecting: Maori curio collecting in Murihiku, 1865-1975." University of Otago. Department of Anthropology, 2003. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070504.115610.

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The ambivalence of many prehistorians toward curio collections has meant that, although they recognise some of their shortcomings, they nevertheless use collections as if they had qualities of archaeological assemblages. In this dissertation it is posited and then demonstrated that curio collections are very different entities to archaeological assemblages. In order to use collections in valid constructions of New Zealand�s pre-European past, the processes that led to their formation need to be understood. It is only then that issues of representation can be addressed. In order to better und

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Cummings, Catherine. "Collecting en route : an exploration of the ethnographic collection of Gertrude Emily Benham." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3138.

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In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century the collecting of objects from colonized countries and their subsequent display in western museums was widespread throughout Western Europe. How and why these collections were made, the processes of collection, and by whom, has only recently begun to be addressed. This thesis is an exploration of the ethnographic collection of Gertrude Emily Benham (1867-1938) who made eight voyages independently around the world from 1904 until 1938, during which time she amassed a collection of approximately eight hun

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Karpathakis, George. "Rock stories: The discourse of rocks and rock-collecting." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/218.

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Humanity's relationship with rocks is a long-standing one. Belk (1995, p.2) describes archaeological evidence of early assemblages of rocks found in Cro-Magnon caves that would not be out of place in contemporary rock-collections. Historically, apart from being used as material for tools and buildings. rocks were also used for magical, pharmaceutical and decorative purposes. During the Renaissance and Enlightenment, the practice of collecting rocks became associated with the sense of discovery and the colonial expansion of western European civilization across world, and with advances in mining

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Cleveland, Larissa. "Collector : collection/possession/persona /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/6186.

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Allsop, Jessica Lauren. "Curious objects and Victorian collectors : men, markets, museums." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14976.

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This thesis examines the portrayal of gentleman collectors in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century literature, arguing that they often find themselves challenged and destabilised by their collections. The collecting depicted contrasts revealingly with the Enlightenment practices of classification, taxonomy, and commodification, associated with the growth of both the public museum and the market economy. The dominance of such practices was bound up with the way they promoted subject-object relations that defined and empowered masculine identity. In the Dialectic of Enlightenment Theodor

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Kell, Patricia Ellen. "British collecting, 1656-1800 : scientific enquiry and social practice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670252.

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Wear, Eric Otto, and 華立強. "Patterns in the collecting and connoisseurship of Chinese art in Hong Kong and Taiwan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43894392.

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