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Sensible objects colonialism, museums and material culture
Title:
Sensible objects colonialism, museums and material culture
Author:
Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-
ISBN:
9781847883155

9781845203245
Edition:
English ed.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 306 p.) : ill.
Series:
Wenner-Gren Center international symposium series

Wenner-Gren Center international symposium series.
Contents:
Enduring and endearing feelings and the transformation of material culture in West Africa / Kathryn Linn Geurts and Elvis Gershon Adikah -- Studio photography and the aesthetics of citizenship in The Gambia, West Africa / Liam Buckley -- Cooking skill, the senses, and memory : the fate of practical knowledge / David Sutton -- Mata ora : chiseling the living face, dimensions of Maori tattoo / Ngahuia Te Akwekotuku -- Smoked fish and fermented oil : taste and smell among the Kwakwaka'wakw / Aldona Jonaitis -- Sonic spectacles of empire : the audio-visual nexus, Delhi-London, 1911-12 / Tim Barringer -- The museum as sensescape : western sensibilities and indigenous artifacts / Constance Classen and David Howes -- The fate of the senses in ethnographic modernity : the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History / Diane Losche -- Contact points : museums and the lost body problem / Jeffrey Feldman -- The beauty of letting go : fragmentary museums and archaeologies of archive / Sven Ouzman.
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