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and modernization dealers remain an important part of this trade and social
contact remains important. Collecting requires specialist knowledge and is
well regulated.
In contrast the world of the everyday collector is altogether less aspira-
tional. Maps are cheaper and easier to acquire and the detail of amassing
and completing a collection becomes more important. More maps are
acquired. The pastime is less regulated and trade is less of a business. Collec-
tors value their own specialist knowledge, rather than relying upon expert
opinion. Collecting activities and spaces are more local, and everyday col-
lectors are disproportionately male, with a much wider spread of social
backgrounds.
These differences suggest that we need to understand map collecting prac-
tices as 'placed behaviour', in which economic relations are mediated by
local culture. A reassuring conclusion in an increasingly uniform global-
ized world.
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