Sensible Objects : Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series
ISBN-10
1845203240
ISBN-13
9781845203245
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Berg Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 1st, 2006
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
502 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.60 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers
Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sense of vision in the analysis of material culture. Contributors argue that vision can only be understood in relation to the other senses. In this they present another challenge to the assumed western five-sense model, and show how our understanding of material culture in both historical and contemporary contexts might be reconfigured if we consider the role of smell, taste, touch and sound, as well as sight, in making meanings about objects.
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