Synopsis
This is a work which challenges mentalist approaches to material culture through the historical and ethnographic analyses of sensory memory. It includes an editorial introductory essay and epilogue discussing sensory memory as a cultural form freed from the psychic apparatus of monadic, pre-cultural and ahistorical subject. It explores the senses in contemporary political and racial violence, exchange practices, the emotions, national identity, spatial organization, leisure activity, and the electronic media.
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Anthropologist and award-winning author C. Nadia Seremetakis brings together essays by five scholars concerned with the senses and the anthropology of everyday life.
About the Author
For more information about C. Nadia Seremetakis, visit http: //www.seremetakis.com/.
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