Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845203240 ISBN 13 : 9781845203245

Editeur : Berg Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sense of vision in the analysis of material culture. Contributors argue that vision can only be understood in relation to the other senses. In this they present another challenge to the assumed western five-sense model, and show how our understanding of material culture in both historical and contemporary contexts might be reconfigured if we consider the role of smell, taste, touch and sound, as well as sight, in making meanings about objects.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Professor Elizabeth Edwards is Research Professor of Photographic History and Director of the Photographic History Research Centre. A visual and historical anthropologist, she has worked extensively on the relationships between photography, anthropology and history in cross-cultural environments and on the social practices of photography. Her monographs and edited works include Anthropology and Photography (1992), Raw Histories (2001), Photographs Objects Histories (2004), Sensible Objects (2006), Photography, Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame (2009) and most recently The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination 1885-1918, (2012). She has published over 70 essays in journals and exhibition catalogues over the years and was recently featured in 50 Key Writers on Photography (2013). She is on the board of major journals in the field including Visual Studies and History of Photography. She recently completed a major HERA/European-funded project on the role of the photographic legacy of the colonial past in contemporary Europe (http//: photoclec.dmu.ac.uk).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berg Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845203240
• ISBN 13: 9781845203245
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Edwards Elizabeth
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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