The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture : A Sociology of the Senses

ISBN-13: 9780415879910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 200 str.

Phillip Vannini; Dennis Waskul; Simon Gotschalk

Opis

The authors provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical, recent, and emerging scholarship and grounded in original empirical data that deepens the review and analysis.

Spis treści

Selected Contents:Part 1: Understanding Sensory Studies. 1. Toward a Sociology of the Senses. 2 The Sensual Body. 3 Sensual Ritual and Performance. 4 Sensuous Scholarship. Part 2: Doing Sensory Research. 5. The Sensuous Self and Identity. 6. A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time. 7. The Sensory Order. 8. Media, Consumer, and Material Culture.