Books written by Constance Classen

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.
Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell

This text argues that smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored.
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 ...
The Book of Touch

This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense.
The Color of Angels: Cosmology, Gender, and the Aesthetic Imagination

Compellingly demonstrates the relationship between sensory and gender orders, highlighting the gender politics behind such sensory constructs as the male gaze and the female touch.
The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch

The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch fleshes out our understanding of the past with explorations of lived experiences of embodiment from the middle ages to modernity.
The Colour of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination

162 U. Boccioni, "Futurist Painting and Sculpture," in Apollonio, ed., Futurist Manifestos, pp. 172-81. 163 Ibid., p. 175. The relationship between Futurism and Cubism is treated in M.W. Martin, Futurist Art and Theory: 1909-1915, ...
A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire

“It is impossible to see modern life steadily and see it whole” (Forster [1910] 2000: 138), we are told in Chapter 18 of a novel ... but at the novel's end is to belong to a boy whose mother is a Schlegel and whose father was a Bast.
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 ...
The Book of Touch

(eds) The Sage Handbook of Material Culture, London: Sage. Ingold, T. (2000), The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling, and Skill, London: Routledge. Kensinger, K. (1995), How Real People Ought to Live: The ...
Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures

Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures
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.
The Museum of the Senses: Experiencing Art and Collections

... Micromuseology: An Analysis of Small Independent Museums. London: Bloomsbury. Carus Wilson, William, ed. 1856. 'Butterfly Memoirs'. In The Children's Friend 33:391. Causton, Henry Kent Staple. 1862. The Howard Papers. London: Henry ...
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 ...