Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and

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Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect (Topics in Contemporary Archaeology)

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.

Country	USA
Author	Yannis Hamilakis
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780521545990
IsAdultProduct
ISBN	0521545994
Label	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press
MPN	26 b/w illus.
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	270
PartNumber	26 b/w illus.
PublicationDate	2015-07-16
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
ReleaseDate	2015-07-23
Studio	Cambridge University Press

Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect (Topics in Contemporary Archaeology)

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