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Sensible objects : colonialism, museums and material culture /
Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This book applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and post colonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Berg,
2006.
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| Colección: | Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Artifacts8 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.