The Social Meaning of the Senses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Meaning of the Senses write by Paul Eisewicht. This book was released on 2023-08-21. The Social Meaning of the Senses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. That which we consider to be real we call knowledge. As a rule, we consider what our five senses convey to us to be real. Our perception and what we consider real and construct as socially effective differs depending on which senses we focus on and how intensively. The connection between reality constructions and sensory conditions has received little attention in social research so far. This concerns, for example, the use of our sensory organs for empirical reconstructions of bodies of knowledge, sensory perceptions as part of bodies of knowledge, or the question of how far knowledge is dependent on sensory abilities. This anthology attempts to close this gap by focusing on the social significance of sensory perceptions and discussing it using the example of various objects of investigation. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture write by Phillip Vannini. This book was released on 2013-10-18. The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In contrast to books which separate the five (or six, or seven) senses from one another, The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society is organized around intersecting themes within sociological and anthropological fields of study—such as "the senses and the self," "time, place, and the senses," "sensory order and social control" and so forth—by doing so, we appeal to a wide variety of scholars and students.
Sensory Experiences
Sensory Experiences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sensory Experiences write by Danièle Dubois. This book was released on 2021-12-15. Sensory Experiences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses describes the collective elaboration of a situated cognitive approach with an emphasis on the relations between language and cognition within and across different sensory modalities and practices. This approach, grounded in 40 years of empirical research, is a departure from the analytic, reductive view of human experiences as information processing. The book is structured into two parts. Each author first introduces the situated cognitive approach from their respective sensory domains (vision, audition, olfaction, gustation). The second part is the collective effort to derive methodological guidelines respecting the ecological validity of experimental investigations while formulating operational answers to applied questions (such as the sensory quality of environments and product design). This book will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners dealing with sensory experiences and anyone who wants to understand and celebrate the cultural diversity of human productions that make life enjoyable!
Ways of Sensing
Ways of Sensing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ways of Sensing write by David Howes. This book was released on 2013-10-30. Ways of Sensing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and space. The chapters reflect on topics such as the tactile appeal of medieval art, the healing power of Navajo sand paintings, the aesthetic blight of the modern hospital, the role of the senses in the courtroom, and the branding of sensations in the marketplace. Howes and Classen consider how political issues such as nationalism, gender equality and the treatment of minority groups are shaped by sensory practices and metaphors. They also reveal how the phenomenon of synaesthesia, or mingling of the senses, can be seen as not simply a neurological condition but a vital cultural mode of creating social and cosmic interconnections. Written by leading scholars in the field, Ways of Sensing provides readers with a valuable and engaging introduction to the life of the senses in society.
Sensual Relations
Sensual Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sensual Relations write by David Howes. This book was released on 2010-02-22. Sensual Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual Relations contests the conventional exclusion of sensuality from intellectual inquiry and reclaims sensation as a fundamental domain of social theory. David Howes is Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
