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...

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...