The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology

ISBN-13: 9781138676299 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 592 str.

Robin Skeates; Jo Day

Opis

Edited by two pioneers in the field of sensory archaeology, this handbook comprises a key point of reference for the ever-expanding field of sensory archaeology: one that surpasses previous books in this field, both in scope and critical intent.

Spis treści

1 Sensory archaeology: key concepts and debates; PART I: APPROACHES TO SENSORY ARCHAEOLOGY; 2 Digging up the sensorium: on the sensory revolution in archaeology; 3 Early theories of sense perception: Greek origins; 4 Doing sensory archaeology: the challenges; 5 How does it feel? Phenomenology, excavation and sensory experience: notes for a new ethnographic field practice; 6 The senses in museums: knowledge production, democratization and indigenization; PART II: SENSORIAL PRACTICES, contexts and materials; 7 Emotion and the senses in archaeology; 8 Movement, materials and intersubjectivity: insights from western Ireland; 9 Sensing death and experiencing mortuary ritual; 10 Environment and the senses; 11 Waterfalls and moving waters: the unnatural natural and flows of cosmic forces; 12 Darkness and light in the archaeological past: sensory perspectives; 13 The sensory archaeology of textiles; 14 Sensory perception and experience of glass; 15 Ceremonial architecture and public events; 16 Cities and urbanism; 17 Warfare and the senses: archaeologies of the senses and sensorial archaeologies of recent conflict; 18 The sensory experiences of food consumption; PART III: Archaeological Case-studies by period and region; 19 Stealing through the back door: sensory archaeology in the European Mesolithic; 20 Sensory archaeology in Scandinavia and Finland; 21 Sensory Mediterranean prehistory; 22 Sensory approaches to the Aegean Bronze Age; 23 The sensory world of Mesopotamia; 24 The sensory worlds of ancient Egypt; 25 Classical archaeology and the senses: a paradigmatic shift?; 26 Experimental archaeology and (re)-experiencing the senses of the medieval world; 27 Haptic vision: making surface sense of Islamic material culture; 28 Sensorial experiences in Mesoamerica: existing scholarship and possibilities; 29 Sensory archaeology in the Pueblo Southwest; 30 Sensory approaches to the woodland and Mississippian cultures of the Eastern Woodlands of North America; 31 Sensory archaeology in the Pacific; 32 Afterword: sensory archaeology―a work in progress