Sensory Studies
About the Book Series
This series comprises cutting-edge case studies, syntheses and translations in the emergent field of sensory studies. Building on the success of the Sensory Formations series, this series, edited by David Howes, provides an invaluable resource for those involved in research or teaching courses on the senses as object of study and/or means of inquiry. Embracing the insights of a wide array of humanities and social science disciplines, the field of sensory studies has emerged as the most comprehensive and dynamic framework yet for making sense of human experience. This series offers something for every disciplinary taste and sensory inclination.
Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses
1st Edition
By David Le Breton
November 02, 2017
Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses is a highly original and comprehensive overview of the anthropology and sociology of the body and the senses. Discussing each sense in turn – seeing, hearing, touch, smell, and taste – Le Breton has written a truly monumental work, vast in scope and ...
The Invention of Taste: A Cultural Account of Desire, Delight and Disgust in Fashion, Food and Art
1st Edition
By Luca Vercelloni
September 21, 2017
The Invention of Taste provides a detailed overview of the development of taste, from ancient times to the present. At the heart of the book is an intriguing question: why did the sensory attribute of human taste become a social metaphor and aesthetic value for judging cultural qualities of art, ...
Ritual, Performance and the Senses
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Bull, Jon P. Mitchell
August 25, 2016
Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations - ideas, beliefs, values - to be shared among participants.Focusing on the body and the ...
The Life of the Senses: Introduction to a Modal Anthropology
1st Edition
By François Laplantine
February 26, 2015
Both a vital theoretical work and a fine illustration of the principles and practice of sensory ethnography, this much anticipated translation is destined to figure as a major catalyst in the expanding field of sensory studies.Drawing on his own fieldwork in Brazil and Japan and a wide range of ...