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Call of Papers VII TAAS, Latin American Archaeology Theory Congress, CHILE Simposium: Sensorial Archaeology, the body and the senses. Author: José Roberto Pellini –Laboratory of Sensorial Archaeology – Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil - jrpellini@gmail; Melisa A. Salerno – Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas CONICET, Argentina Discussant: Alejandro Haber – CONICET, Argentina Deadline: JUNE 30, 2014 Abstract: “The mystery of things, where is it? Where is it that does not appear? What the river knows about the mystery of things and what knows the tree? I, who am no more than they, what do I know? Every time I look things and I think about what men think of them. Because the only hidden meaning of things, is that the things not have hidden meaning, it is stranger than all the oddities. The things are really what seem to be and there is nothing to understand. Yes, this is what my senses alone learned: things have meaning: they exist. Things are only hidden meaning of things. The poet Fernando Pessoa, in the voice of Alberto Caeiro tells us about things, objects, about the mysteries of the body, about the feelings and truths of life. He tells us that our first contact with the world is sensorial. He tells us that sensory experience confronts us with the truths of the world. He suggest us that is through the senses that we understand the material world around us. The Anthropology has shown that the body and the senses have a cultural dimension, they are constrained by our social practices. These conditions are reflected in different ways to experience and understand ourselves and the objects. Despite its importance, the body and the senses have not been sufficiently explored by archeology (especially in the Latin American context). Overall, it has been assumed that sensory experience is too ephemeral and intangible to be discussed by the discipline. From our position, this is not the case, since we believe that the sensory experience needs the materiality of the world to be activated and archaeology works with materiality. Considering the ideas presented in this symposium we propose to analyze how people produce their subjectivity, their identity, their experiences, their daily life, their routines, and how they construct their own history through the sensory experience of the material world in the Latin American context.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:47:00 +0000

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