Sensible Objects

Description:

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.

subjects: Material culture,  Ethnological museums and collections,  Senses and sensation,  Social aspects,  Colonies,  Human body,  Postcolonialism,  Anthropology,  Sensation,  Culture matérielle,  Sens et sensations,  Corps humain,  Aspect social,  Ethnologie,  Musées et collections,  Postcolonialisme,  Material culture (discipline),  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  General,  Congresses