"The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical…
"The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical…
"The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical…
Dieses Buch beschreibt außergewöhnliche Wahrnehmungen und unglaubliche Fähigkeiten von Menschen und Tieren, die oftmals einem "siebten Sinn" zugeschrieben werden, aus der Sicht der heutigen Lebenswissenschaften. Zentrale Themen sind unbewusste Wahrnehmung, die kritische Bewertun…
Introduction: making sense of colonial encounters and new worlds / Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite -- Part I. Cultural encounters -- Touching on communication: visual and textual representations of touch as friendship in early colonial encounters / Celine Carayon -- Mission s…
Empire of the Senses' brings together pathbreaking scholarship on the role the five senses played in early America. With perspectives from across the hemisphere, exploring individual senses and multi-sensory frameworks, the volume explores how sensory perception helped frame cul…
These essays, for the most part, focus on the history of particular sensations, but together they point to the importance of situating them in the context of a wider understanding of the relationship between the human body as sensorium and its urban environment.
"Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian writers crafted images of both Old and New Worlds using the non-visual senses (hearing, smell, taste, and touch). The contributors argue that the uses of these senses are central to un…
"Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian writers crafted images of both Old and New Worlds using the non-visual senses (hearing, smell, taste, and touch). The contributors argue that the uses of these senses are central to un…
"Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in ancient Greece and Rome. How, for example, did the slaves, visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home differently? And how did owners manipulate the spaces of their homes to demonstrate control or socia…
"Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expres…
Eine anschauliche Anregung zum genauen Beobachten, um Sinneswahrnehmungen bewusster zu erleben und experimentierend erste Erfahrungen zu machen.