Doing Senses: Methods and Landscapes

Summary

In this paper we discuss methods for what Yannis Hamilakis (2013) has called "sensorially reconstituted archaeologies." Rather than being strictly focused on single mode sensory experience in the past, such archaeologies cannot be done without a self-reflexive awareness of multisensorial elements in every experience and event of modern archaeology and the imagined past. The theoretical goals of such a large-scale shift in thinking about archaeology and the senses have already been laid out, but they have yet to be borne out in practice. Our goal is to guide the "doing" towards an expanded toolkit of methods, some from within archaeology and some from other disciplines, that access, interpret, represent, and evoke sensorial attention. We pay particular attention to methods linked to landscape archaeology and our personal practices in the North American Southwest and Turkey.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20468