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Empire of the SensesThe Sensual Culture Reader

Edited byDAVID HOWES

BERGOxford N ew York

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ContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction: Empires of the Senses 1

Part I: The Prescience of the Senses'Culture Tunes Our Neurons ' 21

1 TheM ind's Eye: W ha t the Blind SeeOliver Sacks 25

2 Inside the Five Sense Sen soriumMarshall M cLuhan 43

Part II: The Shifting SensoriumHistoricizing Perception 55

3 Remembering the SensesSusan Stewart 59

4 TheW itch's Senses: Sensory Ideologies and TransgressiveFemininities from the Renaissance to ModernityConstance Classen 70

5 The Senses Divided: Organs, Objects, and Media in EarlyModern EnglandCarla Mazzio 85

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6 The Death of the Sensuous Ch em ist: The 'New ' Ch em istryand the Transformation of Sensuous TechnologyLissa Roberts 1 0 6

7 Cha rting th e Cultural History of th e SensesAlain Corbin 1 2 8

Part III : SensescapesSensation in Cultural Co ntex t 1 4 3

8 McLuhan in th e Rainforest: T he Sensory W orlds ofOral CulturesConstance Classen 1479 Consciousness as 'Feeling in th e Bo dy': A West AfricanTheory of Embodiment, Emotion and the Making of MindKathryn Linn Geurts 164

10 Places Sensed, Senses Placed: Tow ard a Sen suo us Episte m olog yof EnvironmentsSteven Feld 17911 The Tea Cerem ony: A Symbolic AnalysisDorinne Kondo 19212 Engaging th e Spirits of M od ern ity: Tem iar Songs of a

Changing WorldMarina Roseman 21213 Home Cooking: Filipino W om en an d Geog raphies of th eSenses in Hong KongLisa Law 224P a r t IV: T h e A e s t h e t i c i z a t i o n o f E v e r y d a y l i f e

Aestheticization Takes C om m an d 24514 A Tonic of W ildness: Sensuousness in He nry D avid T hore au

Victor Carl Friesen 2511 5 Volatile Effects: Olfactory D im en sio ns of Art an d Arch itectu re

Jim D robnick 2 6 5

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CONTENTS VII

16 HYPERESTHESIA, or, The Sensu al Logic of Late Capit ali smDavid Howes 281

17 Un der th e Jaguar Suntalo Calvino 3041 8 M ichel Serres' Five Senses

Steven Connor 31819 Darw in's Disgust

William Ian Miller 335

Part V: The Derangement of the SensesThe Senses Disordered 357

2 0 Strindberg's 'Deranged Sen sations 'Hans-Gran Ekman 361

2 1 M ov em en t, Stillness: O n th e Sensory W orld of a Shelter forth e 'Hom eless Mentally III'Robert Desjarlais 369

22 Dystoposthesia: Em placing En viro nm ent al SensitivitiesChristopher Fletcher 380

Sensory BibliographyForm ing Perceptions 399Fifty Ways to C om e to yo ur Senses 404lis t of Co ntr ibutors 407Copy right Ackno wledgm ents 409

Index 413