Human Experience, Memory, and Affect / [electronic resource] Hamilakis, Yannis creator author. text enk 2013 monographic eng

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1 online resource (270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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 the past, archaeology has mostly neglected multi-sensory experience, instead prioritising isolated vision and relying on the Western hierarchy of the five senses. In place of this limited view of experience, Hamilakis proposes a sensorial archaeology that can unearth the lost, suppressed, and forgotten sensory and affective modalities of humans. Using Bronze Age Crete as a case study, Hamilakis shows how sensorial memory can help us rethink questions ranging from the production of ancestral heritage to large-scale social change, and the cultural significance of monuments. Hamilakis points the way to reconstituting archaeology as a sensorial and affective multi-temporal practice. Yannis Hamilakis. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Senses and sensation CC75.7 .H37 2014 930.1028 9781139024655 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139024655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139024655 UkCbUP 110217 20180107143413.0 CR9781139024655