Empire of the Senses

'This is one of the richest collections of essays that I have read in years...It is essential reading.' Edmund De Waal, 'Crafts' 'This is a timely collection that fills an important gap in our archive of the body. Readers and students across many disciplines will find it useful in making sense of a rapidly growing field of knowledge.' Veit Erlmann, Endowed Chair of Music,School of Music, University of Texas at Austin 'I have long been waiting for a book, and a book series, such as this exploring in depth the manifold sensuous dimensions of human experience from an interdisciplinary perspective.' Christopher Tilley, Professor of Anthropology, University College London 'David Howes has compiled an impressive volume of old and new contributions from a range of disciplines that form a solid basis for further work in the field of sensous scholarship.' Jo Tacchi, Queensland University of Technology, in 'International Journal of Cultural Studies' "Empire of the Senses' is

David Howes is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory and a co-author of Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell.

General Introduction: Empires of the Senses Part I: The Prescience of the Senses 'Culture Tunes Our Neurons' 'The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See'--Oliver Sacks * 'Inside the Five Sense Sensorium'--Marshall McLuhan, formerly University of Toronto Part II. The Shifting Sensorium Historicizing Perception 'Remembering the Senses'--Susan Stewart, Princeton University * 'The Witch's Senses: Sensory Ideologies and Transgressive Femininities from the Renaissance to Modernity'--Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal * 'The Senses Divided: Organs, Objects, and Media in Early Modern England'--Carla Mazzio, University of Chicago * 'The Death of the Sensuous Chemist: The 'New' Chemistry and the Transformation of Sensuous Technology'--Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, Netherlands * 'Charting the Cultural History of the Senses'-- Alain Corbin, Universites de Paris Part III. Sensescapes Sensation in Cultural Context 'McLuhan in the Rainforest: The Sensory Worlds of Oral Cultures'--Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal * 'Consciousness as 'Feeling in the Body': A West African Theory of Embodiment, Emotion and the Making of Mind'--Kathryn Linn Geurts, Hamline University, Minnesota * 'Places Sensed, Senses Placed: Towards a Sensuous Epistemology of Space'--Steven Feld, University of New Mexico, Albequerque * 'The Tea Ceremony: A Symbolic Analysis'--Dorinne Kondo, University of Southern California * 'Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: Temiar Songs of a Changing World'--Marina Roseman, Indiana University * 'Home Cooking: Filipino Women and Geographies of the Senses in Hong Kong'--Lisa Law, University of St Andrews Part IV. The Aestheticization of Everyday Life Aestheticization Takes Command 'A Tonic of Wildness: Sensuousness in Henry David Thoreau'--Victor Carl Friesen, Independent Scholar * 'Volatile Effects: Olfactory Dimensions of Art and Architecture'--Jim Drobnick, Parachute Magazine * 'HYPERAESTHESIA, or, The Sensual Logic of Late Capitalism'--David Howes, Concordia University, Montreal * 'Under the Jaguar Sun'--Italo Calvino * 'Michel Serres' Five Senses'--Steven Connor, Birckbeck College * 'Darwin's Disgust'--William Ian Miller, University of Michigan Law School Part V. The Derangement of the Senses The Senses Disordered 'Strindberg's 'Deranged Sensations''--Hans-Gran Ekman, University of Uppsala * 'Movement, Stillness: On the Sensory World of a Shelter for the 'Homeless Mentally Ill''--Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College, New York * 'Dystoposthesia: Emplacing Environmental Sensitivities'--Christopher Fletcher, University of Alberta, EdmontonGeneral Introduction: Empires of the Senses Part I: The Prescience of the Senses 'Culture Tunes Our Neurons' 'The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See'--Oliver Sacks * 'Inside the Five Sense Sensorium'--Marshall McLuhan, formerly University of Toronto Part II. The Shifting Sensorium Historicizing Perception 'Remembering the Senses'--Susan Stewart, Princeton University * 'The Witch's Senses: Sensory Ideologies and Transgressive Femininities from the Renaissance to Modernity'--Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal * 'The Senses Divided: Organs, Objects, and Media in Early Modern England'--Carla Mazzio, University of Chicago * 'The Death of the Sensuous Chemist: The 'New' Chemistry and the Transformation of Sensuous Technology'--Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, Netherlands * 'Charting the Cultural History of the Senses'-- Alain Corbin, Universites de Paris Part III. Sensescapes Sensation in Cultural Context 'McLuhan in the Rainforest: The Sensory Worlds of Oral Cultures