Sensible objects : colonialism, museums and material culture /: colonialism, museums and material culture. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Colonialism, museums and material culture
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden and Ruth B. Phillips.
• Other Names: Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-; Gosden, Chris, 1955-; Phillips, Ruth B (Ruth Bliss), 1945-
• 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'wakw / 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 Hall of Pacific Peoples 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.
• Edition: English ed
• Publisher Details: Oxford New York : Berg
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages), illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
• Subjects: 306; Material culture; Senses and sensation; Human body -- Social aspects; Ethnological museums and collections; Colonies; Postcolonialism; Culture matérielle; Sens et sensations; Corps humain -- Aspect social; Ethnologie -- Musées et collections; Colonies; Postcolonialisme; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Colonies; Ethnological museums and collections; Human body -- Social aspects; Material culture; Postcolonialism; Senses and sensation; Human Body; Sensation; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847883155
• Related ISBNs: 184788315X; 9781845203238; 1845203232; 9781845203245; 1845203240
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.