In this Book
- Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
summary
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.
David Howes is Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxv-xxvi
- Part I. Making Sense in Anthropology
- Part 2. Melanesian Sensory Formations
- Part 3. Libidinal and Political Economies of the Senses
- References
- pp. 249-272
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472026227
Related ISBN(s)
9780472068463, 9780472098460
MARC Record
OCLC
615635629
Pages
309
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No