Archaeology and the senses : human experience, memory, and affect /

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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...

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Archaeology & the Senses
1. Verfasser:
Hamilakis, Yannis
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Zusammenfassung:
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 prioritising 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. Hamilakis points the way to reconstituting archaeology as a sensorial and affective multi-temporal practice.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Anmerkungen:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-107-72028-1
1-139-89418-8
1-107-72763-4
1-107-72999-8
1-107-73174-7
1-107-72823-1
1-107-72361-2
1-139-02465-5
Schlagworte:
Archaeology > Methodology.
Senses and sensation.
Material culture > Psychological aspects.
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