Centres feminism within social policy. Written by leading expert in the field. Required purchase for all universities with holidings on social policy, social welfare and feminist studies

Centres feminism within social policy. Written by leading expert in the field. Required purchase for all universities with holidings on social policy, social welfare and feminist studies

Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sense of vision in the analysis of material culture. Contributors argue that vision can only be understood in relation to the other senses. In this they present another challenge to the assumed western five-sense model, and show how our understanding of material culture in both historical and contemporary contexts might be reconfigured if we consider the role of smell, taste, touch and sound, as well as sight, in making meanings about objects.

Forever Down The River: Memoirs of a Sharecropper's Daughter is the poignant story of a young girl's coming of age in the Upper Cumberlands of Tennessee during the early 1900's. Poverty, disappointment, hope, faith, and love come together throughout the memoir, weaving a rich tapestry showing what life was like as a southern tenant farmer's daughter.