An Archaeology Of The Senses

Author : Yannis Hamilakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107728943

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Archaeology and the Senses by Yannis Hamilakis Pdf

This book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and offers an argument for how the discipline can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience. Yannis Hamilakis shows how, despite its intensely physical engagement with the material traces of the past, archaeology has mostly neglected multi-sensory experience, instead prioritising isolated vision and relying on the Western hierarchy of the five senses. In place of this limited view of experience, Hamilakis proposes a sensorial archaeology that can unearth the lost, suppressed, and forgotten sensory and affective modalities of humans. Using Bronze Age Crete as a case study, Hamilakis shows how sensorial memory can help us rethink questions ranging from the production of ancestral heritage to large-scale social change, and the cultural significance of monuments. Hamilakis points the way to reconstituting archaeology as a sensorial and affective multi-temporal practice.

Author : José Roberto Pellini
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527523500

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Senses, Affects and Archaeology by José Roberto Pellini Pdf

Senses and affects, despite what some schools of thought in modern science think, are not only a physiological tool that captures the stimuli present in the world, but are also an apparatus that constantly updates our position in the world. They are material-discursive practices that we employ on a daily basis in the interpretation and evaluation of the world, a material-discursive practice that limits, delimitates, includes and excludes, arranges and rearranges the elements we grasp and interpret within the assemblies in which we are participating. That is why it is so important to understand how we are educated within these material-discursive practices, for this is the first step towards freeing our sense-affective processes and decolonizing our worldview. An archaeology of the senses and affects is aesthetically decolonized. It recognizes that we have been educated within a senso-affective aesthetic that normalizes and colonizes our behaviour. An archaeology of the senses and affects fights against epistemological violence like that manifested in the thinking that people in the past, as well as the present, thought and acted like Westerners.

Author : Robin Skeates,Jo Day
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317197461

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The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology by Robin Skeates,Jo Day Pdf

Edited by two pioneers in the field of sensory archaeology, this Handbook comprises a key point of reference for the ever-expanding field of sensory archaeology: one that surpasses previous books in this field, both in scope and critical intent. This Handbook provides an extensive set of specially commissioned chapters, each of which summarizes and critically reflects on progress made in this dynamic field during the early years of the twenty-first century. The authors identify and discuss the key current concepts and debates of sensory archaeology, providing overviews and commentaries on its methods and its place in interdisciplinary sensual culture studies. Through a set of thematic studies, they explore diverse sensorial practices, contexts and materials, and offer a selection of archaeological case-studies from different parts of the world. In the light of this, the research methods now being brought into the service of sensory archaeology are re-examined. Of interest to scholars, students and others with an interest in archaeology around the world, this book will be invaluable to archaeologists and is also of relevance to scholars working in disciplines contributing to sensory studies: aesthetics, anthropology, architecture, art history, communication studies, history (including history of science), geography, literary and cultural studies, material culture studies, museology, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

Author : Jo Christine Day,Jo Day
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780809332878

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Making Senses of the Past by Jo Christine Day,Jo Day Pdf

In the past few years, sensory archaeology has become more prominent, and Making Senses of the Past is one of the first collected volumes of its kind on this subject. The essays in this volume take readers on a multisensory journey around the world and across time, explore alternative ways to perceive past societies, and offer a new way of writing archaeology that incorporates each of the five senses.

Author : José Roberto Pellini,Melisa A. Salerno,Andrés Zarankin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443883900

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Coming to Senses by José Roberto Pellini,Melisa A. Salerno,Andrés Zarankin Pdf

Every culture conceives of the senses in different ways, establishing their own models and sensory hierarchies. Despite the importance of the senses in human experience, archaeology has generally neglected the sensory dimension of the material world. In response to this lacuna, the contributions to this volume incorporate all the senses in imaginative scenarios, in order to stimulate new ways of seeing and conceptualising archaeology and bring back the “self” to this science. The international character of the essays brought together here, including researchers and case studies from across the globe, provides a variety of perspectives on this topic from a number of scales of analysis. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, including academic researchers and the general public concerned with archaeology, history, anthropology, and sociology, and will provide readers with a greater understanding of the dynamics of the senses, the relationship between narratives and societies, and the cultural world.

Author : Robin Skeates
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199216604

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An Archaeology of the Senses by Robin Skeates Pdf

In this generously illustrated book Robin Skeates establishes a well-defined methodology for an archaeology of the senses, produces a challenging new interpretative synthesis of Maltese prehistoric archaeology, and provides a rich archaeological case-study for the emergent interdisciplinary field of sensual culture studies.

Author : Eleanor Betts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317057284

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Senses of the Empire by Eleanor Betts Pdf

The Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and artefacts, and on specific aspects of human behaviour, this volume develops ground-breaking methods and approaches for sensory studies in Roman archaeology and ancient history. Authors explore questions such as: what it felt like, and symbolised, to be showered with saffron at the amphitheatre; why the shape of a dancer’s body made him immediately recognisable as a social outcast; how the dramatic gestures, loud noises and unforgettable smells of a funeral would have different meanings for members of the family and for bystanders; and why feeling the weight of a signet ring on his finger contributed to a man’s sense of identity. A multisensory approach is taken throughout, with each chapter exploring at least two of the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. The contributors’ individual approaches vary, reflecting the possibilities and the wide application of sensory studies to the ancient world. Underlying all chapters is a conviction that taking a multisensory approach enriches our understanding of the Roman empire, but also an awareness of the methodological problems encountered when reconstructing past experiences.

Author : Jose Roberto Pellini,Melisa A. Salerno,Andrés Zarankín
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:959287792

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Coming to Senses by Jose Roberto Pellini,Melisa A. Salerno,Andrés Zarankín Pdf

Author : Kelli C. Rudolph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317515401

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Taste and the Ancient Senses by Kelli C. Rudolph Pdf

Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few items of food and drink. But how were their tastes different from ours? How did they understand the sense of taste itself, in relation to their own bodies and to other modes of sensory experience? This volume, the first of its kind to explore the ancient sense of taste, draws on the literature, philosophy, history and archaeology of Greco-Roman antiquity to provide answers to these central questions. By surveying and probing the literary and material remains from the Archaic period to late antiquity, contributors investigate the cultural and intellectual development towards attitudes and theories about taste. These specially commissioned chapters also open a window onto ancient thinking about perception and the body. Importantly, these authors go beyond exploring the functional significance of taste to uncover its value and meaning in the actions, thoughts and words of the Greeks and Romans. Taste and the Ancient Senses presents a full range of interpretative approaches to the gustatory sense, and provides an indispensable resource for students and scholars of classical antiquity and sensory studies.

Author : Kiersten Neumann,Allison Thomason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000436426

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The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East by Kiersten Neumann,Allison Thomason Pdf

This Handbook is a state-of-the-field volume containing diverse approaches to sensory experience, bringing to life in an innovative, remarkably vivid, and visceral way the lives of past humans through contributions that cover the chronological and geographical expanse of the ancient Near East. It comprises thirty-two chapters written by leading international contributors that look at the ways in which humans, through their senses, experienced their lives and the world around them in the ancient Near East, with coverage of Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Persia, from the Neolithic through the Roman period. It is organised into six parts related to sensory contexts: Practice, production, and taskscape; Dress and the body; Ritualised practice and ceremonial spaces; Death and burial; Science, medicine, and aesthetics; and Languages and semantic fields. In addition to exploring what makes each sensory context unique, this organisation facilitates cross-cultural and cross-chronological, as well as cross-sensory and multisensory comparisons and discussions of sensory experiences in the ancient world. In so doing, the volume also enables considerations of senses beyond the five-sense model of Western philosophy (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell), including proprioception and interoception, and the phenomena of synaesthesia and kinaesthesia. The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East provides scholars and students within the field of ancient Near Eastern studies new perspectives on and conceptions of familiar spaces, places, and practices, as well as material culture and texts. It also allows scholars and students from adjacent fields such as Classics and Biblical Studies to engage with this material, and is a must-read for any scholar or student interested in or already engaged with the field of sensory studies in any period.

Author : Daniel Heller-Roazen
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1890951773

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The Inner Touch by Daniel Heller-Roazen Pdf

An original, elegant, and far-reaching philosophical inquiry into the sense of being sentient--what it means to feel that one is alive--that draws on philosophical, literary, psychological, and medical accounts from ancient, medieval, and modern cultures.

Author : Yannis Hamilakis,Mark Pluciennik,Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461506935

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Thinking through the Body by Yannis Hamilakis,Mark Pluciennik,Sarah Tarlow Pdf

What is the archaeology of the body and how can it change the way we experience the past? This book, one of the first to appear on the subject, records and evaluates the emergence of this new direction of cross-disciplinary research, and examines the potential of incorporating some of its insights into archaeology. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and teachers in archaeology, as well as in cognate disciplines such as anthropology and history.

Author : C. Nadia Seremetakis,C Nadia Seremetakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000305432

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The Senses Still by C. Nadia Seremetakis,C Nadia Seremetakis Pdf

How can culture and experience be conceptualized when theorists drag social meaning back and forth between institutions, objects, or acts, as if the dense communication between persons and things were only a quick exchange between surfaces? This volume challenges mentalist approaches to material culture through the historical and ethnographic analyses of sensory memory. The sensory landscape and its meaning-endowed objects bear within them emotional and historical sedimentation that pose crucial questions: What cultural practices enable the sensory-affective experience of history? How does the history of perception speak to the perception of history? The editor, in her four essays, discusses sensory memory as a cultural form not limited to the psychic apparatus of a monadic, pre-cultural, and ahistorical subject but embedded and embodied in a dispersed surround of created things, surfaces, depths, and densities that are stratigraphic sites of sensory biography and history. The volume demonstrates that any ethnographic discussion of the senses involves a priori claims about modernity. Thus the senses are explored in contemporary political and racial violence, exchange practices, the emotions, national identity, food-ways, spatial organization, leisure activity, and the electronic media. Well-known authors examine personal and social investments in objects and substances as the tip of a submerged collective language of materiality that firmly grasps the mutable structure of contemporary experience. Social memory is treated as a meta-sensory organ and shown to be a culturally mediated performance that is activated by material acts and emotionally tangible artifacts.

Author : Mark Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317565826

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Smell and the Ancient Senses by Mark Bradley Pdf

From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell—a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic—has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. Greek and Roman writers and thinkers lost no opportunity to connect the smells that bombarded their senses to the social, political and cultural status of the individuals and environments that they encountered: godly incense and burning sacrifices, seductive scents, aromatic cuisines, stinking bodies, pungent farmyards and festering back-streets. The cultural study of smell has largely focused on pollution, transgression and propriety, but the olfactory sense came into play in a wide range of domains and activities: ancient medicine and philosophy, religion, botany and natural history, erotic literature, urban planning, dining, satire and comedy—where odours, aromas, scents and stenches were rich and versatile components of the ancient sensorium. The first comprehensive introduction to the role of smell in the history, literature and society of classical antiquity, Smell and the Ancient Senses explores and probes the ways that the olfactory sense can contribute to our perceptions of ancient life, behaviour, identity and morality.

Author : Carlos Velasco,Marianna Obrist
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780198849629

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Multisensory Experiences by Carlos Velasco,Marianna Obrist Pdf

Multisensory Experiences: Where the senses meet technology takes you on a journey that goes from the fundamentals of multisensory experiences, through the relationship between the senses and technology, to what the future of those experiences may look like, and our responsibility in it.