Sensing the world
Subtitle: an anthropology of the senses
By: David Le Breton ; translated by Carmen Ruschiensky
Contributors: Ruschiensky, Carmen, translator
Series: Sensory studies series; Sensory studies series
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781474246026; 9781474244176
Subjects: Physical anthropology; Senses and sensation
Work titles: Saveur du monde
Notes: Translation of: Saveur du monde.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Preface : David Le Breton and the sociality of sensation / David Howes; title: Sensing the world : an anthropology of the senses; title: From seeing to knowing : sight, the reflective sense; title: Listening to the world : hearing, the sense of understanding; title: Skin deep : touch, the sense of contact; title: Smelling and feeling, the self and the other; title: Savouring the world : from taste in food to the taste for life; title: The cuisine of disgust.