Coming to senses : topics in sensory archaeology / edited by José Roberto Pellini, Andrés Zarakin and Melisa A. Salerno.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pellini, José Roberto, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Miscellanea.

Archaeology.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

viii, 189 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

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 hook 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Archaeology of a Tear: Delusions in a Tent in a Stormy Day in Antarctica / Andrés Zarankin Zarankin, Andrés 11

Chapter 2 When the Cows Come Home: A Consideration of the Sensorial Engagement between Pastoralists and their Cattle / Julie Dunne Dunne, Julie 21

Chapter 3 Remembering through the Senses: The Funerary Practices in Ancient Egypt / José Roberto Pellini Pellini, José Roberto 39

Chapter 4 J.T. Robinson's Use of a Psychic for Archaeological Research at Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa / Michael A. Cremo Cremo, Michael A. 65

Chapter 5 Sealers were not Born but Made: Sensory-Motor Habits, Subjectivities, and Nineteenth-Century Voyages to the South Shetland Islands / Melisa A. Salerno Salerno, Melisa A. 77

Chapter 6 Touching the Past: The Senses of Things for Local Communities in Amazonia, Brazil / Marcia Bezerra Bezerra, Marcia 105

Chapter 7 Sensing the Past: The Sensorial Experience in Experiential Archaeology by Augmenting the Perception of Materiality / Dragos Gheorghiu Gheorghiu, Dragos 119

Chapter 8 Feeling the Roman Skin: Unsettled, Conformed, and Plural Bodies / Lourdes Conde Feitosa Feitosa, Lourdes Conde, Pedro Paulo Funari Funari, Pedro Paulo 141

Chapter 9 Making Sense out of the Senses: Thingness, Writing, and Time / Alejandro Haber Haber, Alejandro 157.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781443874236

144387423X

OCLC:

922462686

Publisher Number:

99969009787