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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Archaeology

• Full title: Archaeology and the Senses
• Subtitle: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect
• Author: Yannis Hamilakis
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 270
• EAN: 9780521837286
• ISBN: 0521837286
• ID: 02046188
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 586 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 164 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. January 2014

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