Title | Archaeology and the senses: human experience, memory, and affect |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Yannis Hamilakis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press, |
ISBN Number | 9780521837, 9780521545 |
Call Number | CC75.7 .H37 2014, 930.1028, SOC003000 |
Abstract | "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"-- |
Notes | 'Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Demolishing the museum of sensory ab/sense; 2. Archaeology, modernity, and the senses; 3. Recapturing sensorial and affective experience; 4. Senses, materiality, time: a new ontology; 5. Sensorial necro-politics: the mortuary mnemoscapes of Bronze Age Crete; 6. Why \'palaces\'? Senses, memory, and the \'palatial\' phenomenon in Bronze Age Crete; 7. From corporeality to sensoriality, from things to flows.' |
Short Title | Archaeology and the senses |