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The Senses Still: Perception And Memory As Material Culture In Modernity - Hardcover

 
9780813320786: The Senses Still: Perception And Memory As Material Culture In Modernity

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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.

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For more information about C. Nadia Seremetakis, visit http: //www.seremetakis.com/.

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