Senses Still
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affect theory
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Banal Element
Baton Blows
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Commercial Messages
Courtroom Television Network
Cultural Anaesthesia
cultural memory practices
Dominant Public Memory
embodied cognition
emotionally tangible artifacts
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ethnographic analysis
Ethnographic Self-reflexivity
Fairy Tales
Great Gram
Greek Cultural Practices
Historical Unconscious
Jonas Frykman
King's Beating
King's Body
King’s Beating
King’s Body
La Ciotat Station
Les Maitres Fous
material acts
material culture
materiality studies
modernity
Perceptual Topographies
Post War
Sensory Alterity
sensory anthropology
sensory experience in modern societies
sensory memory
Toothless Mouth
Video Occlusion
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- ISBN 9780367311216
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 152 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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How can culture and experience be conceptualized when theorists drag social meaning back and forth between institutions, objects, or acts, as if the dense communication between persons and things were only a quick exchange between surfaces? This volume challenges mentalist approaches to material culture through the historical and ethnographic analyses of sensory memory. The sensory landscape and its meaning-endowed objects bear within them emotional and historical sedimentation that pose crucial questions: What cultural practices enable the sensory-affective experience of history? How does the history of perception speak to the perception of history? The editor, in her four essays, discusses sensory memory as a cultural form not limited to the psychic apparatus of a monadic, pre-cultural, and ahistorical subject but embedded and embodied in a dispersed surround of created things, surfaces, depths, and densities that are stratigraphic sites of sensory biography and history. The volume demonstrates that any ethnographic discussion of the senses involves a priori claims about modernity. Thus the senses are explored in contemporary political and racial violence, exchange practices, the emotions, national identity, food-ways, spatial organization, leisure activity, and the electronic media. Well-known authors examine personal and social investments in objects and substances as the tip of a submerged collective language of materiality that firmly grasps the mutable structure of contemporary experience. Social memory is treated as a meta-sensory organ and shown to be a culturally mediated performance that is activated by material acts and emotionally tangible artifacts.
C. Nadia Seremetakis is the author of the award-winning ethnography The Last Word: Women, Death and Divination in Inner Mani (University of Chicago Press, 1991) and the editor of two books, all published also in Greek translation. She has written numerous articles in European and American scholarly journals and newspapers, and as a cultural anthropologist and gender studies expert, she has held appointments in major universities in both New York and Greece. She is currently working on a visual ethnography of recent immigrant populations in Greece.
