Title & Author:

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

Edition:

English ed.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.

Description:

xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Wenner-Gren international symposium series

Notes:
Based on the Wenner-Gren symposium, "Engaging all the senses : colonialism, process of preception, and material objects", held in Sintra, Portugal, September 26-October 2, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Enduring and endearing feelings and the transformation of material culture in West Africa / Kathryn Linn Geurts and Elvis Gershon Adikah -- Studio photography and the aesthetics of citizenship in The Gambia, West Africa / Liam Buckley -- Cooking skill, the senses, and memory : the fate of practical knowledge / David Sutton -- Mata ora : chiseling the living face, dimensions of Maori tattoo / Ngahuia Te Akwekotuku -- Smoked fish and fermented oil : taste and smell among the kwakwaka'akw / Aldona Jonaitis -- Sonic spectacles of empire : the audio-visual nexus, Delhi-London, 1911-12 / Tim Barringer -- The museum as sensescape : western sensibilities and indigenous artifacts / Constance Classen and David Howes -- The fate of the senses in ethnographic modernity : the Margaret Mead Peoples of the Pacific Hall at the American Museum of Natural History / Diane Losche -- Contact points : museums and the lost body problem / Jeffrey Feldman -- The beauty of letting go : fragmentary museums and archaeologies of archive / Sven Ouzman.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture", 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781845203245 (pbk.)
1845203240 (pbk.)
9781845203238 (hardback)
1845203232 (hardback)

Subject:

Material culture.
Senses and sensation.
Human body Social aspects.
Ethnological museums and collections.
Colonies.
Postcolonialism.
Human Body
Sensation
Culture matérielle.
Sens et sensations.
Corps humain Aspect social.
Ethnologie Musées et collections.
Postcolonialisme.
material culture (discipline)
sensation.
senses.
colonies.
postcolonialism.
Cultural heritage - Protection - Museums and keeping places.
Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous peoples - Pacific - Maori.
Food.
Art - Body art.
Colonisation.
73.20 technological conditions of existence: general (ethnology)
Sense organs.
Tā moko.
Iwi taketake.
Postcolonialism History. Congresses.
Ghana.
Gambia.
Canada.
Non-western world.

Form/genre:

Student Collection.
Conference publications.
Congresses (form)

Added entries:

Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-
Gosden, Chris, 1955-
Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945-
Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952- editor.
Gosden, Chris, 1955- editor.
Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945- editor.
Wenner-Gren international series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287763
Call No.: BIB 229129
Status: Available