Sensible objects : colonialism, museums, and material culture / / edited by Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden, and Ruth B. Phillips

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451352203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2020
• ISBN: 1-000-18343-2; 1-003-08661-6; 1-4742-1546-7; 1-84788-315-X
• Edizione: [English ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Collana: Wenner-Gren Center international symposium series
• Disciplina: 306.4
• Soggetti: Material culture; Senses and sensation; Human body - Social aspects; Ethnological museums and collections; Colonies; Postcolonialism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published 2006 by Berg Publishers."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part 1 The Senses; 1 Enduring and Endearing Feelings and the Transformation of Material Culture in West Africa; 2 Studio Photography and the Aesthetics of Citizenship in The Gambia, West Africa; 3 Cooking Skill, the Senses, and Memory: The Fate of Practical Knowledge; Part 2 Colonialism; 4 Mata Ora: Chiseling the Living Face - Dimensions of Maori Tattoo; 5 Smoked Fish and Fermented Oil: Taste and Smell among the Kwakwaka'wakw; 6 Sonic Spectacles of Empire: The Audio-Visual Nexus, Delhi-London, 1911-12; Part 3 Museums; 7 The Museum as Sensescape: Western Sensibilities and Indigenous Artifacts8 The Fate of the Senses in Ethnographic Modernity: The Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History; 9 Contact Points: Museums and the Lost Body Problem; ; 10 The Beauty of Letting Go: Fragmentary Museums and Archaeologies of Archive; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.