Coming to senses
Subtitle: topics in sensory archaeology
By: edited by José Roberto Pellini, Andrés Zarankin, and Melisa A. Salerno
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781443874236
Subjects: Senses and sensation; Archaeology; Miscellanea
Description: "Every culture conceives of the senses in different ways, establishing their own models and sensory hierarchies. Despite the importance of the senses in human experience, archaeology has generally neglected the sensory dimension of the material world. In response to this lacuna, the contributions to this volume incorporate all the senses in imaginative scenarios, in order to stimulate new ways of seeing and conceptualising archaeology and bring back the "self" to this science. The international character of the essays brought together here, including researchers and case studies from across the globe, provides a variety of perspectives on this topic from a number of scales of analysis. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, including academic researchers and the general public concerned with archaeology, history, anthropology, and sociology, and will provide readers with a greater understanding of the dynamics of the senses, the relationship between narratives and societies, and the cultural world."-- ǂc Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Letters from a past present  -- José Roberto Pellini, Andrés Zarankin and Melisa A. Salerno; title: Archaeology of a tear: delusions in a tent in a stormy day in Antarctica  -- Andrés Zarankin; title: When the cows come home: a consideration of the sensorial engagement between pastoralists and their cattle  -- Julie Dunne; title: Remembering through senses: the funerary practices in ancient Egypt  -- José Roberto Pellini; title: J.T. Robinson's use of a psychic for archaeological research at Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa  -- Michael A. Cremo; title: Sealers were not born but made: sensory-motor habits, subjectivities, and nineteenth-century voyages to the South Shetland Islands  -- Melisa A. Salerno; title: Touchng the past: the senses of things for local communities in Amazonia, Brazil  -- Marcia Bezerra; title: Sensing the past: the sensorial experience in experiential archaeology by augmenting the perception of materiality  -- Dragoș Gheorghiu; title: Feeling the Roman skin: unsettled, conformed, and plural bodies  -- Lourdes Conde Feitosa and -- Pedro Paulo Funari; title: Making sense out of the senses: thingness, writing, and time  -- Alejandro Haber; title: "I have a feeling that something is going to happen!" But with archaeology? -- José Alberione Dos Reis.