For Love and Money: Navigating Values at the Antiques Roadshow Event

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Cornish, Helen; Weston, Gavin; Djohari, Natalie; Urdea, Alexandra; Liber, Elena and Evans, Lowri. 2024. For Love and Money: Navigating Values at the Antiques Roadshow Event. Journal of Popular Culture, 57(2), pp. 80-92. ISSN 0022-3840 [Article]

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Antiques Roadshow Events are held in historic locations across the United Kingdom. On site, experts evaluate objects brought in by attendees, who are often cast as passive recipients, while edited highlights make up the long-running BBC TV program. Through Collaborative Event Ethnography at one Roadshow Event we show how object stories are navigated through “value talk” between attendees and experts in front of live audiences. Value is not a measurement but a dimension of the thing and its context. Stories and money are both integral in understanding worth, and final valuations are only partially shaped by given expertise.

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https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13317

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This research was conducted by the GEARS collective, a research collaboration from Goldsmiths Anthropology department.