David Howes, Constance Classen

Ways of Sensing (eBook, PDF)

Understanding the Senses In Society

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317929482
• Artikelnr.: 39960721

Autorenporträt

David Howes is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. His books include The Varieties of Sensory Experience (1991), Cross-Cultural Consumption (1996) and Empire of the Senses (2005).

Constance Classen is a cultural historian specializing in the body and the senses, and the director of an interdisciplinary research project on the senses in art and the museum. Her books include Worlds of Sense (1993), The Color of Angels (1998) and The Deepest Sense (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ways and Meanings Part One: Art and Medicine 1. Mixed
Messages: Engaging the Senses in Art 2. Sensuous Healing: The Sensory
Practice of Medicine Part Two: Politics and Law 3. The Politics of
Perception: Sensory and Social Ordering 4. The Feel of Justice: Law and the
Regulation of Sensation Part Three: Marketing and Psychology 5. Sense
Appeal: The Marketing of Sensation 6. Synaesthesia Unravelled: The Union of
the Senses from a Cultural Perspective