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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Wenner-Gren international series.
Other Authors: Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-
Gosden, Chris, 1955-
Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945-
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.
Edition:English ed.
Series:Wenner-Gren international series.
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Online Access:
Variant Title:
Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture
Format: Electronic eBook
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'akw / 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 Peoples of the Pacific Hall 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.