Sensible objects
by Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden, Ruth Phillips
Material cultureEthnological museums and collectionsSenses and sensationSocial aspectsColoniesHuman bodyPostcolonialismAnthropology
Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings both colonial and postcolonial relationships.
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