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collectibles  

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  • Collecting and collectibles comprise a relatively new and distinct form of consumption. Those who identify contemporary forms of collecting in modernity as some form of continuity with our primordial past as hunters and gatherers forget that most hunters and gatherers are nomadic and tend to have very small and portable material cultures. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Collecting and Collectibles]

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