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 the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual Relations contests the conventional exclusion of sensuality from intellectual inquiry and reclaims sensation as a fundamental domain of social theory. David Howes is Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
Sensual Reading is a collection of essays that attempts to rearticulate the relationship between reading and the different senses as a way of moving beyond increasingly homogenized discourses of the "body" and the "subject.
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 ...
Klein's model of object relations is deeply sensual in that the infant uses a variety of strategies to assess the boundaries of the self. After all, what are projection and introjection other than alternate ways of crafting externality ...
Gandhi envisioned the unadulterated experience of perfect brahmacharya as akin to communion with God, since for him these ... but for the purpose of this study it also seems fair to take Gandhi at his word and connect this concept, ...
This book examines place and place-making in London’s Borough Market.
All of this must not, however, lead us to think that conscience is to accomplish its purpose by searching out the labyrinth of shifting motives or the maneuvers through which they are embellished. It does not go to all that trouble.
If one feels in danger of sensory overload from this growing body of scholarship, Smith's piece is a useful preventive."--Leigh E. Schmidt, author of Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality "This is a masterful overview.
Living in a World Heritage site provides a grammar of heritage that will allow scholars to question key notions of temporality and nostalgia, the idea of culture, the importance of experts, and moral principles in relation to heritage sites ...
The Methods of Ethics
Robert S. Nelson (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 143–168; Glenn Peers, Sacred Shock: Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium (University Park: Pennsylvania State ...