Senses Still Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity

Name: Senses Still Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity
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ISBN: 9780226748771

ISBN-10: 0226748774

ISBN-13: 9780226748771

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Authors: C. Nadia Seremetakis

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What has happened to regional experiences that identify and shape culture? Regional foods are disappearing, cultures are dissolving, and homogeneity is spreading. Anthropologist and award-winning author of The Last Word: Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani, C. Nadia Seremetakis brings together essays by five scholars concerned with the senses and the anthropology of everyday life. Covering a wide range of topics—from film to food, from nationalism to the evening news—the authors describe ways in which sensory memories have preserved cultures otherwise threatened by urbanism and modernity. The contributors are Susan Buck-Morss, Allen Feldman, Jonas Frykman, C. Nadia Seremetakis, and…

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List price: $30.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

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