books.google.co.uk - 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...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_cultures_of_collecting.html?id=8ImNb0Gflh0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe cultures of collecting
