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Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture

By Chris Gosden , Elizabeth Edwards , Ruth Phillips

Book information

Publisher
Berg Publishers
Year
2006
ISBN
1845203240, 9781845203245
Open Library ID
OL15596654M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2205875 bytes)
Series
Wenner-Gren International Symposium
Edition
English Ed
Pages
321\321
Time added
2011-01-26 19:25:26

Description

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, feel and sound, as well as sight, in making meanings about objects.

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