Archaeology and the senses : human experience, memory, and affect / Yannis Hamilakis, University of Southampton.
| Author/creator | Hamilakis, Yannis, 1966- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2013] |
| Description | xiii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: 1. Demolishing the museum of sensory ab/sense; 2. Archaeology, modernity, and the senses; 3. Recapturing sensorial and affective experience; 4. Senses, materiality, time: a new ontology; 5. Sensorial necro-politics: the mortuary mnemoscapes of Bronze Age Crete; 6. Why 'palaces'? Senses, memory, and the 'palatial' phenomenon in Bronze Age Crete; 7. From corporeality to sensoriality, from things to flows. |
| Abstract | "This book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and offers an argument for how the discipline can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience. Yannis Hamilakis shows how, despite its intensely physical engagement with the material traces of the past, archaeology has mostly neglected multi-sensory experience, instead prioritizing isolated vision and relying on the Western hierarchy of the five senses. In place of this limited view of experience, Hamilakis proposes a sensorial archaeology that can unearth the lost, suppressed, and forgotten sensory and affective modalities of humans. Using Bronze Age Crete as a case study, Hamilakis shows how sensorial memory can help us rethink questions ranging from the production of ancestral heritage to large-scale social change, and the cultural significance of monuments. Tracing the emergence of palaces in Bronze Age Crete as a celebration of the long-term, sensuous history and memory of their localities, Hamilakis points the way to reconstituting archaeology as a sensorial and affective multi-temporal practice. At the same time, he proposes a new framework on the interaction between bodily senses, things, and environments, which will be relevant to scholars in other fields"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-237) and index. |
| LCCN | 2013028541 |
| ISBN | 9780521837286 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0521837286 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780521545990 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0521545994 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | CC75.7 .H37 2013 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |