The Senses Still: Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780367311216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 149 str.

C. Nadia Seremetakis

Opis

This book challenges mentalist approaches to material culture through the historical and ethnographic analyses of sensory memory. It explores senses in contemporary political and racial violence, exchange practices, national identity, spatial organization, and the electronic media.

Spis treści

Prologue -- The Memory of the Senses, Part I: Marks of the Transitory -- Intersection: Benjamin, Bloch, Braudel, Beyond -- The Memory of the Senses, Part II: Still Acts -- The Cinema Screen as Prosthesis of Perception: A Historical Account -- On the Move: The Struggle for the Body in Sweden in the 1930s -- From Desert Storm to Rodney King via ex-Yugoslavia: On Cultural Anaesthesia -- “Conscious” Ain’t Consciousness: Entering the “Museum of Sensory Absence” -- Implications

O autorze

C. Nadia Seremetakis is the author of the award-winning ethnography The Last Word: Women, Death and Divination in Inner Mani (University of Chicago Press, 1991) and the editor of two books, all published also in Greek translation. She has written numerous articles in European and American scholarly journals and newspapers, and as a cultural anthropologist and gender studies expert, she has held appointments in major universities in both New York and Greece. She is currently working on a visual ethnography of recent immigrant populations in Greece.