SensesRegina Bendix, Donald Brenneis The essays in this volume present deeply contextualized cases of sensory experience.They link senses to each other and to event, sentiment, emplacement, identity, and the ongoing shaping of social life. In doing so, they make a strong Joint case for the importance of taking the senses seriously, not in isolation but as integral elements of culture and interaction. |
Contents
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Walking over Scotlands Mountains | 27 |
Making Identities Through Sensory Experience in Ecuador | 43 |
Cultural Synaesthesia in the Western Desert | 61 |
Acute Pain Infliction as Therapy | 76 |
Preliminary Steps towards an Anthropology of Olfaction | 95 |
Representing Perception in Ordinary Conversation | 122 |
Sense Sentiment and Sociality | 140 |
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Popular passages
Page 17 - I would like to juxtapose the parallel figures of the "body" as a biological, material entity and "embodiment" as an indeterminate methodological field defined by perceptual experience and mode of presence and engagement in the world.
References to this book
Critical Journeys: The Making of Anthropologists Geert De Neve,Dr Maya Unnithan-Kumar No preview available - 2012 |