The senses in self, society, and culture
Subtitle: a sociology of the senses
By: Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, Simon Gotschalk
Contributors: Waskul, Dennis D., 1969-; Gotschalk, Simon
Series: Contemporary sociological perspectives
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780415879910; 9780203805985
Subjects: Social aspects; Ethnopsychology; Senses and sensation; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Description: "The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical, recent, and emerging scholarship and grounded in original empirical data that deepens the review and analysis. By bridging cultural/qualitative sociology and cultural/humanistic anthropology The Senses in Self, Culture, and Sociology explicitly blurs boundaries which, in this field, are particularly weak due to the ethnographic scope of much research. Serving both the sociological and anthropological constituencies at once means bridging ethnographic traditions, cultural foci, and socio-ecological approaches to embodiment and sensuousness. The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society is intended to be a milestone in the social sciences' somatic turn"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.