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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460937203321

Titolo

Coming to senses : topics in sensory archaeology / / edited by José Roberto Pellini, Andrés Zarankin and Melisa A. Salerno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8390-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

930.1028

Soggetti

Archaeology - Methodology

Senses and sensation

Archaeology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Sommario/riassunto

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