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The Memory of the Senses. Marks of the Transitory

Author(s): C. Nadia Seremetakis
Contributor(s): Karolina Kuberska (Translator), Kamil Pietrowiak (Translator)
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Greece; senses; memory; material culture; globalization

Summary/Abstract: The article is a part of a book edited by Nadia Seremetakis, Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity. The author considers connections between senses, culture, memory and identity. Referring to the example of a particular sensory experience from her Greek homeland, she shows what happens when perception and memory are globalized through transnational regulations and standards, as well as the homogenization of material culture.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 133-150
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish