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This title includes essays by Jean Baudrillard- Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann- Nicholas Thomas- Mieke Bal- John Forrester- John Windsor- Naomi Schor- Susan Stewart- Anthony Alan Shelton- John Elsner- Roger Cardinal and an interview with Robert Opie. This book traces the psychology- history and theory of the compulsion to collect- focusing not just on the normative collections of the Western canon- but also on collections that reflect a fascination with the Other and the marginal the ephemeral- exotic- or just plain curious. There are essays on the Neoclassical architect Sir John Soane- Sigmund Freud and Kurt Schwitters- one of the masters of collage. Others examine imperialist encounters with remote cultures the consquitadors in America in the sixteenth century- and the British in the Pacific in the eighteenth and the more recent collectors of popular culture- be they of Swatch watches- Elvis Presley memorabilia or of packaging and advertising....