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

Other author Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-
Other author Gosden, Chris, 1955-
Other author Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945-
Format Book
EditionEnglish ed.
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.
Descriptionxiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesWenner-Gren international symposium series
Wenner-Gren international series. ^A632365
Contents 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'wakw / 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 Hall of Pacific Peoples 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.
General notePapers derived from a Wennger-Gren symposium entitled Engaging all the senses : colonialism, processes of perception and material objects, Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2003, Sintra, Portugal.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006004166
ISBN1845203240 (pbk.)
ISBN9781845203245 (pbk.)
ISBN1845203232 (hbk.)
ISBN9781845203238 (hbk.)

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