This work is an attempt to explore both the increase in and the breadth of popular collecting in Britain. It does this by examining the contexts of social change of the past 20 years. This change, it is argued, has led to a culture of social and material insecurity, in which collecting is used for the creation and defence of identity. The social world and values of collectors are explored through their clubs. These, it is asserted, comprise an alternative society, one in which a legitimization of the collector's activities and preferences can be made and in which they develop complementary reality. It is argued that as collectors develop in sophistication, museums are increasingly.
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