Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture (Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845203240 ISBN 13: 9781845203245

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Elizabeth Edwards is Professor and Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London. Chris Gosden is at The Pitt Rivers Museum Research Centre, Oxford.Ruth Phillips is at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, Carleton University, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845203240
• ISBN 13: 9781845203245
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Edwards Elizabeth