Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses

ISBN-13: 9781474244176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 328 str.

David Le Breton; Carmen Ruschiensky; David Howes

Opis

Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses is a highly original and comprehensive overview of the anthropology and sociology of the body and the senses. Discussing each sense in turn seeing, hearing, touch, smell, and taste Le Breton has written a truly monumental work, vast in scope and deeply engaging in style. In a truly pioneering move, he takes the debate beyond taste and food to explore aspects of disgust and revulsion. Part phenomenological, part historical, this is above all a cultural work which returns attention to the body and the senses to the center of social life. Le Breton is the leading authority on the anthropology of the body and the senses in French academia. Comparable to the late Pierre Bourdieu, his works have been translated into numerous languages: for the first time, one of his books is now finally available in English. The translation of the original text is accompanied by a preface from David Howes, one of the leading authorities in the field, who introduces Le Breton's work to an English-speaking audience and highlights its implications on the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and the cross-disciplinary field of sensory studies."

Spis treści

Preface: David Le Breton and the Sociality of Sensation David Howes Introduction 1. Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses 2. From Seeing to Knowing: Sight, the Reflective Sense 3. Listening to the World: Hearing, the Sense of Understanding 4. Skin Deep: Touch, the Sense of Contact 5. Smelling and Feeling, the Self and the Other 6. Savouring the World: From Taste in Food to the Taste for Life 7. The Cuisine of Disgust Overture References Index

O autorze

David Le Breton is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Strasbourg, France.