Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect
Yannis Hamilakis
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 prioritizing 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. Tracing the emergence of palaces in Bronze Age Crete as a celebration of the long-term, sensuous history and memory of their localities, Hamilakis points the way to reconstituting archaeology as a sensorial and affective multi-temporal practice. At the same time, he proposes a new framework on the interaction between bodily senses, things, and environments, which will be relevant to scholars in other fields.
Κατηγορίες:
Έτος:
2014
Εκδότης:
Cambridge University Press
Γλώσσα:
english
Σελίδες:
270
ISBN 10:
0521837286
ISBN 13:
9780521837286
Σειρές:
Topics in Contemporary Archaeology
Αρχείο:
PDF, 6.74 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2014