Making Sense of the Maltese Temple Period: An Archaeology of Sensory Experience and Perception

Author: Skeates, Robin

Source: Time and Mind, Volume 1, Number 2, July 2008 , pp. 207-238(32)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

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Abstract:

This paper attempts to formulate a culturally specific sensory inventory of the Maltese islandscape during the distinctive Temple Period (c. 3400-2500BC), with particular reference to the sensory stimuli and constraints of three dynamic types of place on the islands (houses, caves, and temples), in order to explore the islanders' full-bodied experiences and perceptions of their lived-in world, and to add to our understanding of their sensational Temple Culture, which is characterized here in terms of embodied social production, ritualization, and ordering.

Keywords: SENSUAL CULTURE; BODY; EXPERIENCE; PERCEPTION; MALTA

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.2752/175169708X309815

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