Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture by Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden, Ruth B. Phillips, Ruth Phillips

Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture

Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden, Ruth B. Phillips, Ruth Phillips

288 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcol...

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