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Book 2020

Sensible Objects

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Language
English
Published
2020
  • Material culture
  • Senses and sensation
  • Social aspects
  • Colonies
  • Human body
  • Postcolonialism
  • Anthropology
  • Sensation

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.