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This has led some scholars to suggest that collecting is a way of managing fears about death by creating a form of immortality. This is consistent with a popular theory in social psychology called the terror management theory (TMT). TMT grows out of an existential predicament--that people, like animals, are mortal. But unlike animals, we are aware of our own mortality. Knowledge of the inevitability of death and its unpredictability can produce paralyzing fear. To cope with this potential terror
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― Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
― Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
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This process taught us to test and challenge the prevailing wisdom about the paucity of African American artifacts. What we discovered was a paucity of effort and creativity rather than a scarcity of collections. I hope that our efforts will spur other institutions to embrace community-driven collecting and commit the resources to look inside the basements and garages for material that was once deemed less important to the interpretive agenda of museums. Not every cultural organization will disc
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― A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
― A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
Basically as the title says, its a group for those who collect antique books :) We can discuss t…more
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last active 14 years ago
A club that meets solely online for the purposes of discussing short works of mostly fiction but…more
5 members,
last active 8 years ago
What is a Graphic Novel Book Club? A club that explores book length comics. Comics and graphics …more
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last active 11 years ago
Got a collection of stories? Show it off here. It can be published, online, or anything else. As…more
8 members,
last active 9 years ago
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