Sensible objects
Subtitle: colonialism, museums, and material culture
By: edited by Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden, and Ruth B. Phillips.
Contributors: Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-; Gosden, Chris, 1955-; Phillips, Ruth B. 1945-
Edition: English ed.
Series: Wenner-Gren international symposium series; Wenner-Gren international series
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781845203245; 9781845203238
Subjects: Material culture; Senses and sensation; Body, Human -- Social aspects; Ethnographic museums and collections; Colonies; Postcolonialism
Description: Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings both colonial and postcolonial relationships.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Enduring and endearing feelings and the transformation of material culture in West Africa -- Kathryn Linn Geurts and Elvis Gershon Adikah; title: Studio photography and the aesthetics of citizenship in The Gambia, West Africa -- Liam Buckley; title: Cooking skill, the senses, and memory : the fate of practical knowledge -- David Sutton; title: Mata ora : chiseling the living face, dimensions of Maori tattoo -- Ngahuia Te Akwekotuku; title: Smoked fish and fermented oil : taste and smell among the kwakwaka'akw -- Aldona Jonaitis; title: Sonic spectacles of empire : the audio-visual nexus, Delhi-London, 1911-12 -- Tim Barringer; title: The museum as sensescape : western sensibilities and indigenous artifacts -- Constance Classen and David Howes; title: The fate of the senses in ethnographic modernity : the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History -- Diane Losche; title: Contact points : museums and the lost body problem -- Jeffrey Feldman; title: The beauty of letting go : fragmentary museums and archaeologies of archive-- Sven Ouzman.