Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture (Wenner-Gren International Symposium)

by ElizabethEdwards (Editor), Chris Gosden (Editor), RuthPhillips (Editor)

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  2006

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  Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This book applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and post colonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sense of vision in the analysis of material culture.