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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David Howes , Constance ClassenPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.304kg ISBN: 9780415697156ISBN 10: 0415697158 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 31 October 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ways and Meanings Part One: Art and Medicine 1. Mixed Messages: Engaging the Senses in Art 2. Sensuous Healing: The Sensory Practice of Medicine Part Two: Politics and Law 3. The Politics of Perception: Sensory and Social Ordering 4. The Feel of Justice: Law and the Regulation of Sensation Part Three: Marketing and Psychology 5. Sense Appeal: The Marketing of Sensation 6. Synaesthesia Unravelled: The Union of the Senses from a Cultural PerspectiveReviewsThis is an important book. It will stand as the most informed yet accessible treatment we have of both the individual senses and the relationship among the senses. Howes and Classen offer readers a wholly fresh, compelling, and absorbing account of the ways the senses have worked in a vast variety of social and historical formations. - Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina, USA Howes and Classen have produced a wonderfully lucid and learned account of how we should understand the role of the senses, historically, comparatively and in our own everyday lives. A great pleasure to read. - Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK This is an important book. It will stand as the most informed yet accessible treatment we have of both the individual senses and the relationship among the senses. Howes and Classen offer readers a wholly fresh, compelling, and absorbing account of the ways the senses have worked in a vast variety of social and historical formations. - Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina, USA Howes and Classen have produced a wonderfully lucid and learned account of how we should understand the role of the senses, historically, comparatively and in our own everyday lives. A great pleasure to read. - Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK This is an important book. It will stand as the most informed yet accessible treatment we have of both the individual senses and the relationship among the senses. Howes and Classen offer readers a wholly fresh, compelling, and absorbing account of the ways the senses have worked in a vast variety of social and historical formations. - Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina, USA Howes and Classen have produced a wonderfully lucid and learned account of how we should understand the role of the senses, historically, comparatively and in our own everyday lives. A great pleasure to read. - Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK Author InformationDavid Howes is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. His books include The Varieties of Sensory Experience (1991), Cross-Cultural Consumption (1996) and Empire of the Senses (2005). Constance Classen is a cultural historian specializing in the body and the senses, and the director of an interdisciplinary research project on the senses in art and the museum. Her books include Worlds of Sense (1993), The Color of Angels (1998) and The Deepest Sense (2012). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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