Sensible Objects

Abstract

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)