Coming to senses : topics in sensory archaeology / edited by Jose Roberto Pellini, Andres Zarankin and Melisa A. Salerno.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pellini, Jose Roberto, editor.

Salerno, Melisa A., editor.

Zarankin, Andres, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Methodology.

Archaeology.

Senses and sensation.

Archaeology--Miscellanea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : 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

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Comments

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

ISBN:

1-4438-8390-5

OCLC:

925282822