Everyday life in Asia
Subtitle: social perspectives on the senses
By: by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman and Kelvin E.Y. Low.
Contributors: Low, Kelvin E. Y.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780754679943; 9780754699767
Subjects: Senses and sensation -- Social aspects -- Asia; Ethnopsychology; Asia -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sounds that unite, sounds that divide : pervasive rituals in a middle eastern society / Devorah Kalekin-Fishman; title: Somaphoric organizations of self and society in Java / Steve Ferzacca; title: Sensing Tokyo's alleyways : everyday life and sensory encounters in the alleyways of a city in transition / Heide Imai; title: Summoning the senses in memory and heritage making / Kelvin E.Y. Low; title: Imitating masters : apprenticeship and embodied knowledge in rural China / Mu Peng; title: The sensory experience of thai massage : commercialization, globalization, and tactility / Junko Iida; title: Comfort food, memory, and "home" : senses in transnational contexts / Norman Abdullah; title: Purchasing food in modern Vietnam : when supermarkets affect the senses. / Muriel Figuié and Nicolas Bricas.