Empire of the senses : the sensual culture reader / edited by David Howes.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005.
Description
vii, 421 p. ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Sensory formations series [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • The mind's eye : what the blind see / Oliver Sacks
    • Inside the five-sense sensorium / Marshall McLuhan
    • Remembering the senses / Susan Stewart
    • The witch's senses : sensory ideologies and transgressive femininities from the Renaissance to modernity / Constance Classen
    • The senses divided : organs, objects, and media in early modern England / Carla Mazzio
    • The death of the sensuous chemist : the 'new' chemistry and the transformation of sensuous technology / Lissa Roberts
    • Charting the cultural history of the senses / Alain Corbin
    • Mcluhan in the rainforest : the sensory worlds of oral cultures / Constance Classen
    • Consciousness as 'feeling in the body' : a West African theory of embodiment, emotion, and the making of mind / Kathryn Linn Guerts
    • Places senses, senses placed : toward a sensuous epistemology of environments / Steven Feld
    • The tea ceremony : a symbolic analysis / Dorinne Kondo
    • Engaging the spirits of modernity : temiar songs of a changing world / Marina Roseman
    • Home cooking : Filipino women and geographies of the senses in Hong Kong / Lisa Law
    • A tonic of wildness : sensuousness in Henry David Thoreau / Victor Carl Friesen
    • Volatile effects : olfactory dimensions of art and architecture / Jim Drobnick
    • Hyperesthesia, or, The sensual logic of late capitalism / David Howes
    • Under the jaguar sun / Italo Calvino
    • Michel Serres' five senses / Steven Connor
    • Darwin's disgust / William Ian Miller
    • Strindberg's 'deranged sensations' / Hans-Göran Ekman
    • Movement, stillness : on the sensory world of a shelter for the 'homeless mentally ill' / Robert Desjarlais
    • Dystoposthesia : emplacing environmental sensitivities / Christopher Fletcher.
    ISBN
    • 1859738583 (cloth)
    • 185973863X (pbk.)
    LCCN
    2004023159
    OCLC
    56617216
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