Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources offers a comprehensive collection of key writings essential to anyone wishing to gain a critical understanding of sensory studies. The four volumes include 101 essays from leading scholars in the humanities, social sciences, arts and design, biology, psychology and the neurosciences.
Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources offers a comprehensive collection of key writings essential to anyone wishing to gain a critical understanding of sensory studies. The four volumes include 101 essays from leading scholars in the humanities, social sciences, arts and design, biology, psychology and the neurosciences.Drawing upon historical and contemporary texts from a wide range of sources, this set is inspired by the sensory turn in the humanities, social sciences and fine arts which has challenged the monopoly that psychology formerly held over the study of senses and sensation. It also builds upon the revolution in psychology and the neurosciences which has led to an increased emphasis on the interaction and integration of the senses, in place of the one-sense-at-a-time approach.Ordered by discipline, the volumes cover geography and anthropology, history and sociology, biology, psychology and neuroscience, and art and design. Each volume is separately introduced and the essays structured into coherent sections on specific themes.
Volume 1: Geography and AnthropologyIntroduction: On the Geography and
Anthropology of the Senses, David HowesPart I: FoundationOvertures1. The
Background to Pure Geography, Olavi Granö and Anssi Paasi2. Alternating
Sounds, Franz Boas3. Sensible Qualities, Claude Lévi-Strauss in conversation
with Didier Erbon4. Sensing the World in Cross-Cultural Perspective, David Le
BretonDisciplines5. The Senses in Focus, Douglas Pocock6. Geography of the
Senses, Paul Rodaway7. Anthropology of the Senses, David HowesPart II: Key
Domains and ConceptsCosmology/Ecology8. Blowing cross the crest of Mount
Galeng: Winds of the Voice, Winds of the Spirits, Marina Roseman9.
Topophilia, Yi-Fu TuanEmplacement10. Feeling is Believing, or Landscape as a
Way of Being in the World, Edmunds Valdemars Bunke Materiality11. Enduring
and Endearing: Feelings and the Transformation of Material Culture in West
Africa, Kathryn Linn Geurts and Elvis Gershon Adikah Memory12. The Memory of
the Senses Marks of the Transitory: The Breast of Aphrodite, C. Nadia
Seremetakis
13. Sensing the Ruin, Tim Edensor Alterity14. Immigrant Lives and
the Politics of Olfaction in the Global City, Martin F. Manalansan IV15.
Sensing Muslim Difference, Youshaa PatelMediation16. Literacy as
Anti-Culture: The Andean Experience of the Written Word, Constance
ClassenMovement17. Culture on the Ground: The World Perceived through the
Feet, Tim IngoldAffect18. Using the Body as an Instrument of Research:
Kimchi and Pavlova, Robyn Longhurst, Elsie Ho, Lynda Johnston
19. Ordinary
Affects, Kathleen StewartRepresentation20. Leviathan and the Experience of
Sensory Ethnography, Christopher Pavsek21. Cybercartography: A Multisensory
Approach, D.R. Fraser Taylor with Patricia Leean Trbovich, Gitte Lindgaard
and Richard F. DillonGustation22. The Sensory Experience of Food, Lisa
Heldke, Carolyn Korsmeyer and David SuttonSynaesthesia/Intersensoriality23.
Brain and Mind in Desana Shamanism, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff24. Synesthesia,
Metaphor and Symbolic Space, Yi-Fu TuanPart III: Exhibitions25. Woman, Fire,
Ambition, and Desire: The Idea and Performance of the Great Baga D'mba
(Exhibition Project Narrative), Frederick Lamp26. Creating Mami Wata: An
Interactive, Sensory Exhibition, Henry J. Drewal27. Walking Without Purpose:
Sensations of History and Memory in Nagasaki City, Rupert CoxVolume 2:
History and SociologyIntroduction: On the History and Sociology of the
Senses, David HowesPart I: FoundationsOvertures1. Huizinga on Historical
Experience, Frank Ankersmit2. Smells, Tastes, Sounds and the Underdevelopment
of Sight, Lucien Febvre3. Shock and Distraction: Georg Simmel and Walter
Benjamin, Dorothée BrillDisciplines4. The Senses in History, Martin Jay5.
Sociology of the Senses, Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, and Simon
GottschalkPart II: Key Domains and ConceptsCosmology/Ecology6. On the Color
of Angels: The Sensory Cosmologies of St. Hildegard, Boehme, and Fourier,
Constance ClassenEmplacement7. The Everyday City of the Senses, Mónica
DegenMateriality8. The Performative Icon, Bissera V. Pentcheva
9. Outcomes of
Secularization Theory for Visual and Material Religion, Sally M.
PromeyMemory10. The Proust Effect: Uplifting Musicial Memories and Sensory
Reminiscence in Older People, Cretien van CampenAlterity11. Uncertainty and
Deliberative Thinking in Blind Race Attribution, Asia Friedman Mediation12.
Pens and Needles: Writing, Womens Work and Feminine Sensibilities, Constance
Classen13. Virtualization: Sensory Atrophy and Disconnection, Phillip
Vannini, Dennis Waskul, and Simon GottschalkMovement14. Grasping the
Phenomenology of Sporting Bodies, John Hockey and Jacquelyn
Allen-Collinson15. Sporting Sensation, John F. Sherry Jr.Affect16. Russias
Carnival: The Sense-Experience of Transition, David Howes17. Listening-Touch:
Affect and the Crafting of Medical Bodies through Percussion, Anna
HarrisRepresentation18. Take Five: Renaissance Literature and the Study of
the Senses, Patricia A. Cahill Gustation19. Sweetness, Michael Pollan
20. The
Invention of Gastronomy, Luca VercelloniSynaesthesia/Intersensoriality21.
Color and Sound: Transcending the Limits of the Senses, Fay Zika22.
Synesthesia, Transformation and Synthesis: Toward a Multi-sensory Pedagogy of
the Image, Silvia CasiniPart III: Exhibitions23. On Method, Mark M. Smith
24.
Ears-On Exhibitions: Sound in the History Museum, Karin Bijsterveld25. War,
Memory and the Senses in the Imperial War Museum London, 1920-2014, Alys
Cundy Volume 3: Biology, Psychology and NeuroscienceIntroduction: On the
Individuation/Integration of the Senses in Biology, Psychology and
Neuroscience An Orthogonal View, David HowesPart I: FoundationsOvertures1.
The Unity of the Senses, Erich M. Von Hornbostel2. Taste-Smell Confusions
and the Duality of the Olfactory Sense, Paul RozinDisciplines3. The Theory of
Meaning, Jakob von Uexküll4. Edisons Teeth: Touching Hearing, Steven
Connor5. Crossmodal Correspondences: A Synopsis, Charles SpencePart II: Key
Domains and ConceptsCosmology/Ecology6. Perception, Ecology and Music, Eric
F. ClarkeEmplacement7. Fingeryeyes: Impressions of Cup Coral, Eva
HaywardMateriality8. Mechanical Tasting: Sensory Science and the
Flavorization of Food Production, Ingemar Pettersson9. Electromagnetism and
the Nth Sense: Augmenting Senses in Grinder Subculture, Mark D.
DoerksenMemory10. On Listening to a Dream: The Sensory Dimensions, Alfred
Margulies11. The Making of Mind in a West African Community: Anlo-Ewe
Understandings of Embodied Cognition, Kathryn Linn GeurtsAlterity12. The
Menagerie of the Senses, Steven Connor13. An Auditory World: Music and
Blindness, Oliver SacksMediation14. Interactive Sonification for Data
Exploration, Florian Grond and Thomas Hermann15. Vision and the Training of
Perception: McLuhans Medienpadägogik, Norm FriesenMovement16. Seeing with a
Sideways Glance: Visuomotor Knowing and the Plasticity of Perception,
Greg DowneyAffect17. What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi
Representation18. An Empire of Sound: Sentience, Sonar and Sensory Impudence,
John Shiga19. Cultural Factors Shape Olfactory Language, Asifa
MajidGustation20. Wine and Music, Charles
SpenceSynaesthesia/Intersensoriality21. Synesthesia on Our Mind, Lawrence E.
Marks and Catherine M. Mulvenna22. Synaesthesia Unravelled, David Howes and
Constance ClassenPart III: Exhibitions23. Making Sense of the Senses across
Species Boundaries: Curating the Animal Senses Gallery at National Museums
Scotland, Andrew C. Kitchener24. Tate Sensorium (Exhibition Project
Narrative) Flying ObjectVolume 4: Art and DesignIntroduction: Sensory Art and
Design, David HowesPart I: FoundationsOvertures1. Sensory Separation and the
Founding of Art History, Fiona Candlin2. All-Consuming Images: The Marriage
Between Art and Commerce, Stuart EwenDisciplines3. Twentieth Century Visual
Art, Design, Music and the Senses, Ian Heywood4. Disciplining the Senses:
Beethoven as Synaesthetic Paradigm, Simon Shaw-Miller
5. Sensing Materials:
Exploring the Building Blocks for Experiential Design, Hendrik N. J.
Schifferstein and Lisa WastielsPart II: Key Domains and
ConceptsCosmology/Ecology6. Visualizing: Design, Communicative Objectivity
and the Interface since 1945, Orit HalpernEmplacement7. Resonances:
Experimental Encounters with Sound Art in the Making, Chris Salter8.
Atmospheric Architecture: Elements, Processes and Practices, Mikkel Bille and
Tim Flohr Sørensen. Materiality9. Stuff Matters: Glass, Mark Miodownik10.
Sensuality and Shag Carpeting: A Design Review of a Postwar Floor Covering,
Chad RandlMemory
11. Unofficial Memory: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment and
the Senses, Laura U. MarksAlterity12. Remote Avant Garde: Tjanpi Desert
Weavers, Jennifer Biddle
13. Rasaesthetics, Richard SchechnerMediation14.
The Mediated Sensorium, Caroline A. JonesMovement15. Sense, Meaning and
Perception in Three Dance Cultures, Cynthia Jean Cohen BullAffect16. Sound
Studies without Auditory Culture: A Critique of the Ontological Turn, Brian
KaneRepresentation17. The Senses in Literature, 1920-2000: From the Modernist
Shock of Sensation to Postcolonial and Virtual Voices, Ralf Hertel
18.
Towards a Multisensory Aesthetic: Jean Gionos Non-Visual Sensorium, Hannah
ThompsonGustation19. Alimentary Art, 1909-2018, Mark
ClintbergSynaesthesia/Intersensoriality20. Art and the Senses, 1800-1920:
From the Romantics to the Futurists, Constance Classen21. Sensing Things:
Merleau-Ponty, Synaesthesia and Human-Centredness, Nigel PowerPart III:
Exhibitions22. Touch This, Stefan Szczelkun and Bill Arning23. The Urban
Sensorium, Alan Nash and Michael Carroll
24. Mediations of Sensation:
Designing Performative Sensory Environments, David Howes and Chris Salter25.
A Feast for the Senses at The Walters Art Museum (Exhibition Project
Narrative), Martina BagnoliIndex Appendix of Sources
David Howes is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
