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Making senses of the past : toward a sensory archaeology / edited by Jo Day.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Occasional paper (Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations) ; no. 40.Publisher: Carbondale : Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xiii, 429 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0809332876
  • 9780809332878
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930.1 23
LOC classification:
  • CC75.7 .A59 2013
Contents:
1. Introduction: Making Senses of the Past / Jo Day -- 2. Dibéwagendamowin-Krohirohi: Reflections on Sacred Images on the Rock / William A. Allen, Gerard O'Regan, Perry Fletcher, and Roger Noganosh -- 3. The sound of sulfur and smell of lightning: sensing the volcano / Karen Holmber -- 4. Colored monuments and sensory theater among the Mississippians / Corin C. O. Pursell -- 5. Maya palaces as experiences: ancient Maya royal architecture and its influence on sensory perception / Ryan Mongelluzzo -- 6. Coming to our senses at Chavín de Huantar / Mary Weismantel -- 7. The sensory experience of blood sacrifice in the Roman imperial cult / Candace Weddle -- 8. Embodying the divine: the sensational experience of the sixth-century eucharist / Heather Hunter-Crawley -- 9. A sense of touch: "the full-body experience" in the past and present of Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Ruth Tringham -- 10. Musical space and quiet space in medieval monastic Canterbury / Joe Williams -- 11. Sustenance, taste, and the practice of community in ancient Mesopotamia / Marie Hopwood -- 12. The scent of status: prestige and perfume at the Bronze Age palace at Pylos, Greece / Joanne M. A. Murphy -- 13. A whiff of mortality: the smells of death in Roman and Byzantine Beth She'an-Scythopolis / Emerson Avery -- 14. Imagined aromas and artificial flowers in Minoan society / Jo Day -- 15. Craft and sensory play in late Bronze Age Boeotia / Anastasia Dakouri-Hild -- 16. Scents and sensibilities: the phenomenology of late Neolithic Iberian slate plaque production / Jonathan T. Thomas -- 17. The production process as sensory experience: making and seeing iron in colonial New England / Krysta Ryzewski -- 18. Beyond the display case: creating a multisensory museum experience / Catherine P. Foster -- 19. Imagined narratives: sensuous lives in the Chacoan Southwest / Ruth M. Van Dyke -- 20. Afterword: eleven theses on the archaeology of the senses / Yannis Hamilakis.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Making Senses of the Past / Jo Day -- 2. Dibéwagendamowin-Krohirohi: Reflections on Sacred Images on the Rock / William A. Allen, Gerard O'Regan, Perry Fletcher, and Roger Noganosh -- 3. The sound of sulfur and smell of lightning: sensing the volcano / Karen Holmber -- 4. Colored monuments and sensory theater among the Mississippians / Corin C. O. Pursell -- 5. Maya palaces as experiences: ancient Maya royal architecture and its influence on sensory perception / Ryan Mongelluzzo -- 6. Coming to our senses at Chavín de Huantar / Mary Weismantel -- 7. The sensory experience of blood sacrifice in the Roman imperial cult / Candace Weddle -- 8. Embodying the divine: the sensational experience of the sixth-century eucharist / Heather Hunter-Crawley -- 9. A sense of touch: "the full-body experience" in the past and present of Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Ruth Tringham -- 10. Musical space and quiet space in medieval monastic Canterbury / Joe Williams -- 11. Sustenance, taste, and the practice of community in ancient Mesopotamia / Marie Hopwood -- 12. The scent of status: prestige and perfume at the Bronze Age palace at Pylos, Greece / Joanne M. A. Murphy -- 13. A whiff of mortality: the smells of death in Roman and Byzantine Beth She'an-Scythopolis / Emerson Avery -- 14. Imagined aromas and artificial flowers in Minoan society / Jo Day -- 15. Craft and sensory play in late Bronze Age Boeotia / Anastasia Dakouri-Hild -- 16. Scents and sensibilities: the phenomenology of late Neolithic Iberian slate plaque production / Jonathan T. Thomas -- 17. The production process as sensory experience: making and seeing iron in colonial New England / Krysta Ryzewski -- 18. Beyond the display case: creating a multisensory museum experience / Catherine P. Foster -- 19. Imagined narratives: sensuous lives in the Chacoan Southwest / Ruth M. Van Dyke -- 20. Afterword: eleven theses on the archaeology of the senses / Yannis Hamilakis.

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