Sensible Objects : Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture.
Title:
Sensible Objects : Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture.
Author:
Edwards, Elizabeth.
ISBN:
9781847883155
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Series:
Wenner-Gren International Symposium Ser.
Contents:
Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Senses -- 1 Enduring and Endearing Feelings and the Transformation of Material Culture in West Africa -- 2 Studio Photography and the Aesthetics of Citizenship in The Gambia, West Africa -- 3 Cooking Skill, the Senses, and Memory: The Fate of Practical Knowledge -- Part 2 Colonialism -- 4 Mata Ora: Chiseling the Living Face - Dimensions of Maori Tattoo -- 5 Smoked Fish and Fermented Oil: Taste and Smell among the Kwakwaka'wakw -- 6 Sonic Spectacles of Empire: The Audio-Visual Nexus, Delhi-London, 1911-12 -- Part 3 Museums -- 7 The Museum as Sensescape: Western Sensibilities and Indigenous Artifacts -- 8 The Fate of the Senses in Ethnographic Modernity: The Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History -- 9 Contact Points: Museums and the Lost Body Problem -- 10 The Beauty of Letting Go: Fragmentary Museums and Archaeologies of Archive -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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