Full title: An archaeology of the senses : prehistoric Malta / Robin Skeates.

Author/creator: Skeates, Robin.

Date: 2010..

Call Numbers: N937.8/12

Record Identifier: 74Vvq87O0PWd

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xiv, 287 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 24 cm., Introduction : towards an archaeology of the senses. Sensual culture studies ; Beyond the five senses ; Prehistoric Malta -- The senses restrained. Making sense of the history of archaeological representation ; From oral tradition to printed history : the mid-seventeenth century ; Classical tours and picturesque views : the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries ; Rude stone monuments in a crown colony : 1800-1864 ; An archaeological bonanza : 1865-1839 ; Constructing a prehistoric culture sequence in post-war Malta : 1940-1973 ; The reinvention of Malta's prehistoric heritage : 1974 to the present -- The Maltese sensescape. Making sense of islands ; Remote islands : before 5200 BC ; Desirable islands : 5200 BC ; Little Sicily : 5200-4400 BC ; Sensory relations : 4400-3400 BC ; Knowledgeable islanders : 3400-2500 BC ; Hybridization : 2400-1500 BC ; Permeable boundaries : 1500-700 BC -- Dwelling places. Making sense of settlement ; Life on the farm : 5200-4400 BC ; Strengthened communities : 4400-3400 BC ; The temple builders' housework : 3400-2500 BC ; Fortified communities : 2400-700 BC -- Monumental buildings. Making sense of temples ; The monumentalization of communities : 3400-2500 BC ; The reinvention of tradition : 2400-700 BC -- The underworld. Making sense of caves ; Dwelling, ritual, and the other world : 5200-4400 BC ; Placing the dead : 4400-3400 BC ; The elaboration of underground religious experience : 3400-2500 BC ; The rejection of traditional underground religion : 2400-700 BC -- Conclusion : making sense of prehistoric Malta. The senses ; Sensual cultures.

Publishers: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-272) and index.

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DDC: 937.8

MMS ID: 991006308869702626