Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Senses * Enduring and Endearing Feelings and the Transformation of Material Culture in West Africa Kathryn Geurts (Hamline University) with Elvis Gershon Adikah (Hamline University) * Studio Photography and the aesthetics of Citizenship in The Gambia, West Africa Liam Buckley (John Madison University) * Cooking skill, the senses and memory: the fate of practical knowledge David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) 2. Colonialism * Mata Ora: Chiselling the Living Face, Dimensions of Maori Tattoo. Ngahuia Te Akwekotuku (University of Waikato) * Smoked fish and fermented oil: Taste and smell among the Kwakwaka'wakw Aldona Jonaitis (Fairbanks Museum, University of Alaska) * Sonic Spectacles of Empire: the Audio-Visual Nexus, Delhi -- London, 1911-12. Tim Barringer (Yale University) 3. Museums * The museum as sensescape: western sensibilities and indigenous artefacts Constance Claessen and David Howes (Concordia University) * The Fate of the Senses in Ethnographic Modernity: The Margaret Mead Peoples of the Pacific Hall at the American Museum of Natural History Diane Losche (University of New South Wales) * Contact Points: Museums and the Lost Body Problem Jeffrey Feldman (New York University) * The beauty of letting go: Fragmentary museums and Archaeologies of archive Sven Ouzman (University of California at Berkeley National Museum of South Africa)

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About the Author

Elizabeth Edwards is Professor and Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London. Chris Gosden is at The Pitt Rivers Museum Research Centre, Oxford. Ruth Phillips is at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, Carleton University, Canada.

Reviews

'The volume ought to be considered as a starting-point from which to explore further the anthropolgy of the senses.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol 14, No 2, June 2008