Changing your heart, uour mind and your paints. The sensorial archaeology

Abstract

How was pointed Classen (1993, 1997) and Howes (1991, 2006), ethnographic, historical and anthropological studies have shown that sensory perception is a cultural construct, or the meanings that individuals attribute to the sensory aspects are based on sensory models adopted socially. Thus each culture sees the senses differently its own sensory hierarchies (HOwes 2006). In this sense, an understanding of the sensory world is not only a physiological aspect, but it is culturally determined. The groups recognize the human sensory apparatus in accordance with its own context, creating and changing senses, creating and altering sensory hierarchies. We learn to see, hear, feel. We learn to observe and not observe. In this sense the Sensory Archaeology seeks to understand the human experience through an understanding of how is the relationship between individuals and the material world, assuming that is the way that the objects they raise sensitivities are sensitive to the sensory models and cultural senses of a group.