Sensible objects : colonialism, museums, and material culture
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Sensible objects : colonialism, museums, and material culture
（Wenner-Gren international symposium series）
Berg, 2006
English ed
- : pbk
- : hardback
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Arose from a Wenner-Gren Symposium entitled Engaging all the senses: colonialism, processes of perception and material objects which was held from Sept. 26 to Oct. 2, 2003 in Sintra, Portugal
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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 Awekotuku
- 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 Holl of Pacific peoples at the American Museum of Natural History / Diane Losche
- Contact points : museums and the lost body problem / Jeffrey David Feldman
- The beauty of letting go : fragmentary museums and archaeologies of archive / Sven Ouzman