Exploring the senses / editors, Axel Michaels, Christoph Wulf.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Michaels, Axel, editor.

Wulf, Christoph, 1944- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Exploring the Senses--Emotions, Performativity, and Ritual (Conference) (2011 : Berlin, Germany)

Series:

South Asian and European perspectives on rituals and performativity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senses and sensation--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.

Senses and sensation.

Senses and sensation--Religious aspects--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.

Rites and ceremonies--Congresses.

Rites and ceremonies.

Ceremonial Behavior.

Senses and sensation--Religious aspects.

Medical Subjects:

Ceremonial Behavior.

Genre:

Kongress -- Berlin -- 2011.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

vi, 342 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

Summary:

This fascinating volume offers a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach to understanding the senses by exploring themes in anthropologies of sound, sight, smell, taste, touch, and movement as expressed through aesthetic, perceptual, religious, and spiritual experiences. In drawing upon comparative perspectives from Indian and Western theories, the essays demonstrate the integral relation of senses as they manifest in a globalized world under the influence of new media, this work will interest scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, ritual studies, psychology, religion, philosophy, and history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Exploring the senses in rituals and performances : an introduction / Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf

The windows on the world : the senses and inner life / Remo Bodei

Sensory perception and notions of the senses in samkhya philosophy / Angelika Malinar

Senses, human and divine / Gerard Colas

The divine embrace : role of senses in pusthimarga / Anand Mishra

Managing the senses in Sant devotion / Monika Horstmann

The vision : control, desire, perception / Christoph Wulf

Seeing ghosts in India and Europe / William S. Sax

Sonic perception and acoustic communication in Hindu India / Annette Wilke

"Noise" or "Silence?" listening to sacred sound in 20th-century Europe / Karsten Lichau

The sonic persona : an anthropology of sound / Holger Schulze

Taste as an aesthetic sense / Alain Montandon

Scent of a flower : notes on olfaction in Hindu Worship / Astrid Zotter

Untouchability and tactility in Hindu death rituals / Axel Michaels

Senses of movement : kinesthetics and synesthetics in contemporary dance practices / Gabriele Brandstetter

Memory, experience and imagination in performance / Jayachandran Palazhy

Family constellation therapy : body memory and the sense of space / Jan Weinhold

Performative ritual as sensual experience of body, place and sociality / Karin M. Polit

Unity of the senses in Indian thought / Sundar Sarukkai

The politics of the senses : on vision and hearing in Hannah Arendt's "Vita Activa" / Theofanis Tasis

The sky around our bodies : climate and atmospheric perception / Madalina Diaconu.

Notes:

"Most chapters in this volume were originally written for the conference 'Exploring the Senses--Emotions, Performativity, and Ritual, ' held at the Freie Universität Berlin in Berlin from November 8-12,2011"--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0415711061

9780415711067

OCLC:

840466720

Publisher Number:

99957350791