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Holding on to childhood things: storage, emotion, and curation of children’s material biographies

Garder les objets de l’enfance: entreposage, émotion et conservation du matériel biographique des enfants

Aferrarse a las cosas de la infancia: almacenamiento, emoción y curadoría de las biografías materiales de los niños

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Pages 192-209 | Received 06 Jul 2018, Accepted 24 Oct 2019, Published online: 19 Dec 2019

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