Everyday life in Asia : social perspectives on the senses / edited by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman and Kelvin E.Y. Low.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalekin-Fishman, Devorah.

Low, Kelvin E. Y.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senses and sensation--Social aspects--Asia.

Senses and sensation.

Ethnopsychology.

Manners and customs.

Senses and sensation--Social aspects.

Asia--Social life and customs--21st century.

Asia.

Physical Description:

xi, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]

Contents:

Sounds that unite, sounds that divide : pervasive rituals in a middle eastern society / Devorah Kalekin-Fishman

Somaphoric organizations of self and society in Java / Steve Ferzacca

Sensing Tokyo's alleyways : everyday life and sensory encounters in the alleyways of a city in transition / Heide Imai

Summoning the senses in memory and heritage making / Kelvin E.Y. Low

Imitating masters : apprenticeship and embodied knowledge in rural China / Mu Peng

The sensory experience of thai massage : commercialization, globalization, and tactility / Junko Iida

Comfort food, memory, and "home" : senses in transnational contexts / Norman Abdullah

Purchasing food in modern Vietnam : when supermarkets affect the senses. / Muriel Figuié and Nicolas Bricas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754679943

0754679942

9780754699767

0754699765

OCLC:

503307932