Books written by David Howes
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Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell
Aroma breaks the 'olfactory silence' of modernity by offering the first comprehensive exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history - from antiquity to the present - and in a wide variety of non-Western societies.
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Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory
A few other scholars working independently of Mead and Métraux also highlighted the importance of attending to cross-cultural variations in the patterning of sense experience. For example, Edward T. Hall proposed that ...
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First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Oral Boards
Fiona Gallahue INITIAI. INFORMATION Name: Noah Calhoun Mode of arrival: Ambulance Age: 90 years Gender: Male VS: T 378°C (lOO.l°F), BP 160/80, HR 106, RR 20, OZ sat: 98% on RA CC: Headache PLAY OF THE CASE C: “What do I see as I walk ...
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Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell
This text argues that smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored.
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Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory
DIVOffers a full-bodied approach to the study of culture in which each sense serves as a potent register of meaning /div
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Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell
R.Park, On Social Control and Collective Behaviour, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1967, pp. 179–80. Cited in Park, On Social Control, p. 180. B.Connolly and R.Anderson, First Contact: New Guinea's Highlanders Encounter the ...
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Cross-Cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities
Goods are imbued with meanings and uses by their producers. When they are exported, they can act as a means of communication or domination.
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Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader
With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns linguistic and textual models of interpretation and places sensory experience at the forefront ...
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The Sixth Sense Reader
In this groundbreaking volume, leading scholars in history, anthropology and biology take the reader on a tour of the far borderlands of consciousness.
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Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory
With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to ...
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Ways of Sensing: Understanding the Senses In Society
... Pocket A-Z of Criminal Justice, Hook, UK: Waterside Press. Gifford, P.(2004) Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Gill, S.D.(1979) Songs of Life: An ...
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The Varieties of Sensory Experience: A Sourcebook in the Anthropology of the Senses
Western societies are overwhelmingly dependent on visual and verbal faculties for their experience of the world. But different societies use and combine the senses in different ways and to different...
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A Cultural History of the Senses in the Modern Age
The globalization of biomedicine exposed populations around the world to myriad new sensations, both trivial and profound, from the cooling sensations of antibacterial gels to the tactile and kinesthetic experience of prosthetic ...
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Cross-Cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities
The world as seen through the windows of the corporate boardroom situated on the twentieth floor of some glass office ... result from the special position which the anthropologist, as 'marginal native', takes up—a position on the border ...
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Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell
The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. This book breaks the "olfactory silence" of modernity.
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First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Oral Boards
Real exam strategies to help you avoid pitfalls and errors on the Emergency Medicine Oral Boards!
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Ways of Sensing: Understanding the Senses In Society
... The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century Discourse, New York: Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg. Associated Press (1984) 'Judge who is blind', Associated Press, June 24. Bacci, F. and Melcher, D. (eds) (2011) Art and the Senses ...
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Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader
With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns linguistic and textual models of interpretation and places sensory experience...
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The Varieties of Sensory Experience: A Sourcebook in the Anthropology of the Senses
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