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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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Book data: Open Library