Sensible Objects

Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture





Libro editado por Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden y Ruth B. Phillips (2006)



Introduction
Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden, and Ruth B. Phillips

Part 1 The Senses
1 Enduring and Endearing Feelings and the Transformation of Material Culture in West Africa Kathryn Linn Geurts and Elvis Gershon Adikah
2 Studio Photography and the Aesthetics of Citizenship in The Gambia, West Africa
Liam Buckley
3 Cooking Skill, the Senses, and Memory: The Fate of Practical Knowledge
David Sutton

Part 2 Colonialism
4 Mata Ora: Chiseling the Living Face, Dimensions of Maori Tattoo
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
5 Smoked Fish and Fermented Oil: Taste and Smell among the Kwakwaka’wakw
Aldona Jonaitis
6 Sonic Spectacles of Empire: The Audio-Visual Nexus, Delhi–London, 1911–12
Tim Barringer

Part 3 Museums
7 The Museum as Sensescape: Western Sensibilities and Indigenous Artifacts
Constance Classen and David Howes
8 The Fate of the Senses in Ethnographic Modernity: The Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History
Diane Losche
9 Contact Points: Museums and the Lost Body Problem
Jeffrey David Feldman
10 The Beauty of Letting Go: Fragmentary Museums and Archaeologies of Archive
Sven Ouzman