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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wenner-Gren international seriesPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.Edition: English edDescription: xiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781847883155 (electronic bk.)
  • 184788315X (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306 22
LOC classification:
  • GN406 .S48 2006eb
Online resources:
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.
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Papers 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.

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'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.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Excludes some or all of the images which were part of the original book.

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