Archaeology and the senses : human experience, memory, and affect / Yannis Hamilakis.
"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 th...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Archaeology and the senses; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Preface; 1 Demolishing the museum of sensory ab/sense; 2 Western modernity, archaeology, and the senses; Cesspools and bourgeois experience; Class, race, and the construction of modernist sensorial regimes; The senses in early philosophical thought and social theory: A brief excursus; Sensorial clashes: Archaeology and the sensorial regimes of modernity; Archaeology as an 'exhibitionary' discipline; The photographic and the archaeological.
- Sacred antiquities: The dialectic between sensorial intimacy and distanceThe silence of the museum; Archaeological paradigms and sensoriality; A ghost is haunting archaeology. . .; 3 Recapturing sensorial and affective experience; A new era for sensoriality?; New multi-sensorial arenas, new sensorial fields? The cinema and the museum; Philosophies of sensoriality; How many senses are there?; Corporeal visuality?; Food/senses/memories; Sensoriality as bio-politics; Eating and sensoriality: a gustemology or a new ontology?; Archaeologies of the senses.
- Landscape phenomenology as archaeology of the senses?Spatial technologies, virtual realities, archaeologies of the senses?; Conclusions; 4 Senses, materiality, time: A New Ontology; The senses are about the nature and status of being; The senses are infinite; Archaeology can explore that sensorial infinity; From the body and the thing, to the field and the flow; Sensorial flows are risky and unpredictable; The senses are political; The senses are historical; Every sensorial perception is full of memories; Sensorial reflexivity should be the starting point of any sensorial analysis.
- The senses are multi-temporal
- they activate the multi-temporality of matter: a Bergsonian ontologyArchaeologies of the senses are also archaeologies of affect; Sensorial assemblages; From ontology to ontogeny; 5 Sensorial necro-politics: The Mortuary Mnemoscapes of Bronze Age Crete; The Smell of Death; Diverse sensorialities in the burial arena; The emergence of the 'individual'?; Individuals and personhood in archaeology; From individuals to trans-corporeality; The dialectic between sensorial remembering and forgetting; The mortuary landscape as a chronotopic map; Sensorial necro-politics.
- 6 Why 'palaces'?Crete of a hundred palaces? Court-centred buildings as arenas of sensoriality; Palaces as celebrations of sensorial and mnemonic history; (1) Sense of Place; (2) Sense of Embodied Commensality; (3) Sense of Ancestral Lineage and Continuity; Regimenting and regulating sensorial experience: the production of a mnemonic record; Smashing pots; Performative audio-vision: experiencing wall paintings; Archaeology as sensorial and mnemonic history: conclusion; 7 From corporeality to sensoriality, from things to flows; Notes; 1 Demolishing the museum of sensory ab/sense.