LIFE LIKE DOLLS: The Collector Doll Phenomenon and the Lives of the Women Who Love Them By A.F. Robertson (Routledge)

A fascinating subject--compulsive collectors of porcelain dolls--rendered a bit dry. Anthropologist Robertson, cautious not to stigmatize his subjects, pulls his analysis up short, quoting copiously from ad copy. Yet this subculture is engrossing enough to make this scholarly book a pretty good read.

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