Archaeology and the senses: human experience, memory, and affect PDF
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ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE SENSES This book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodilysenses,showingatthesametimehowthedisciplinecanofferaricher glimpse into the human sensory experience. Yannis Hamilakis proposes a sensorial archaeology that can unearth the lost, suppressed, and forgotten sensoryandaffectivemodalitiesofhumans.UsingBronzeAgeCreteasacase study,heshowshowsensorialmemorycanhelpusrethinkquestionsranging fromtheproductionofancestralheritagetolarge-scalesocialchangeandthe culturalsignificanceofmonuments.Hamilakisthuspointsthewaytorecon- stituting archaeology as a sensorial and affective multi-temporal practice, offering at the same time a new framework on the interaction between bodily senses, things, and environments, which will be relevant to scholars inotherfields. Yannis Hamilakis is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.Hisresearchfocusesonthearchaeologyofthebodilysenses, thepoliticsofthepast,archaeologicalethnography,socialzooarchaeology, and the archaeology of Greece. He has been a member of the School of AdvancedStudyatPrinceton,ascholarattheGettyResearchInstituteinLos Angeles,aMargoTytusFellowattheUniversityofCincinnati,andavisiting scholar at Princeton University. He serves on the editorial board of many journalsincludingtheAnnualReviewofAnthropology,theAmericanJournalof Archaeology,theJournalofContemporaryArchaeology,Archaeologies:TheJournal oftheWorldArchaeologicalCongress,theJournalofMediterraneanArchaeology,and theAnnualoftheBritishSchoolatAthens.Healsoco-directstheKoutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project, focusing ontheexcavationofthetellsiteofKoutroulouMagoulaincentralGreece. He has published many articles and has authored, edited, or co-edited 11 books,includingTheNationandItsRuins:Antiquity,Archaeology,andNational ImaginationinGreece(2007),whichwontheEdmundKeeleyPrizeandwas shortlistedfortheRuncimanPrize. ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE SENSES Human Experience, Memory, ff and A ect YANNIS HAMILAKIS UniversityofSouthampton 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,NY10013-2473,USA CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521837286 ©YannisHamilakis2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Hamilakis,Yannis,1966– Archaeologyandthesenses:humanexperience,memory,andaffect/YannisHamilakis. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-521-83728-6(hardback) 1. Archaeology–Methodology. 2. Sensesandsensation. 3. Crete (Greece)–Antiquities. 4. Materialculture–Psychologicalaspects. I. Title. CC75.7.H37 2014 930.1028–dc23 2013028541 ISBN978-0-521-83728-6Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Στην κυρία Νίκη, και στηθεία Ριρίκα To Mrs Niki (my primary school teacher), and toAuntie Ririka CONTENTS ListofFigures pageix Preface xi 1 DemolishingtheMuseumofSensoryAb/sense 1 2 WesternModernity,Archaeology,andtheSenses 16 3 RecapturingSensorialandAffectiveExperience 57 4 Senses,Materiality,Time:ANewOntology 111 5 SensorialNecro-Politics:TheMortuaryMnemoscapes ofBronzeAgeCrete 129 6 Why‘Palaces’?:Senses,Memory,andthePalatial PhenomenoninBronzeAgeCrete 161 7 FromCorporealitytoSensoriality,fromThings toFlows 191 Notes 205 References 209 Index 239 vii
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