Sensible objects

by Elizabeth Edwards

First published 2006 · 320 pages

About this book

Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings both colonial and postcolonial relationships.

  • Material culture
  • Ethnological museums and collections
  • Senses and sensation
  • Social aspects
  • Colonies
  • Human body
  • Postcolonialism
  • Anthropology

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