Empire of the Senses

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.

出版者:Berg Publishers

作者:Howes, David 编

页数:432

出版时间:2004-12-1

价格:GBP 19.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781859738634

图书标签:Anthropology身体史英国文化研究感觉史感官史心灵哲学

With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns linguistic and textual models of interpretation and places sensory experience at the forefront of cultural analysis. The senses are gateways of knowledge, instruments of power, sources of pleasure and pain - and they are subject to dramatically different constructions in different societies and periods. Empire of the Senses charts the new terrains opened up by the sensual revolution in scholarship, as it takes the reader into the sensory worlds of the medieval witch and the postmodern mall, a Japanese tea ceremony and a Boston shelter for the homeless. This compelling revisioning of history and cultural studies sparkles with wit and insight and is destined to become a landmark in the field.

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两个星期囫囵扫完。

两个星期囫囵扫完。

看了第三章，完全就是在bury paper的过程中自娱自乐的

The part on the hierarchy of senses is brilliant.

看了第三章，完全就是在bury paper的过程中自娱自乐的