The Sixth Sense Reader (Sensory Formations)
'Five is a handy number, but the world's cultures have imagined more than just five senses connecting human beings to the ambient world-and to their own bodies. The Sixth Sense Reader circles this intriguing phenomenon from a number of disciplinary vantage points, across a range of cultures and within an historical horizon that stretches from Aristotle to cyberpresence. Precisely because its subject cannot be taken for granted, The Sixth Sense Reader offers a particularly lively and provocative introduction to the new field of sensual culture.' - Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California  In this groundbreaking volume, leading scholars in history, anthropology and biology take the reader on a tour of the far borderlands of consciousness. From the world beneath to the world beyond the five senses, every potential avenue of sensation is opened up for investigation. anthropology.net