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...

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Main Author:	Hamilakis, Yannis 1966- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2014
Subjects:	Archäologie Funde Psychologie Archaeology / Methodology Senses and sensation Material culture / Psychological aspects Methode Palast Wahrnehmung Sachkultur Minoer Crete (Greece) / Antiquities Kreta
Online Access:	DE-12 DE-473 Volltext
Summary:	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 prioritising 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. Hamilakis points the way to reconstituting archaeology as a sensorial and affective multi-temporal practice
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages)
ISBN:	9781139024655
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781139024655