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Archaeology and the senses : human experience, memory, and affect

Hamilakis, Yannis, 1966-

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\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Archaeology Methodology. / Senses and sensation. / Material culture Psychological aspects. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. / Crete (Greece) Antiquities.
• ISBN: 9780521837286, 0521837286, 9780521545990, 0521545994

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
CC75.7.H37 2014	1	BOOK	GENERAL