Sensible Objects

Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture

By: Elizabeth Edwards (Editor), Chris Gosden (Editor), Ruth Phillips (Editor)

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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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'The volume ought to be considered as a starting-point from which to explore further the anthropolgy of the senses.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol 14, No 2, June 2008

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Introduction
The Senses
Enduring and Endearing Feelings and the Transformation of Material Culture in West Africa Kathryn Geurts (Hamline University)
Studio Photography and the aesthetics of Citizenship in The Gambia, West Africa
Cooking skill, the senses and memory: the fate of practical knowledge
Colonialism
Mata Ora: Chiselling the Living Face, Dimensions of Maori Tattoo
Smoked fish and fermented oil: Taste and smell among the Kwakwaka'wakw
Sonic Spectacles of Empire: the Audio-Visual Nexus, Delhi -- London, 1911-12
Museums
The museum as sensescape: western sensibilities and indigenous artefacts Constance
The Fate of the Senses in Ethnographic Modernity: The Margaret Mead Peoples of the Pacific Hall at the American Museum of Natural History
Contact Points: Museums and the Lost Body Problem
The beauty of letting go: Fragmentary museums and Archaeologies of archive
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