Sensual relations : engaging the senses in culture and social theory / David Howes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howes, David.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Papua New Guinea.

Ethnology.

Senses and sensation--Papua New Guinea.

Senses and sensation.

Human body--Social aspects--Papua New Guinea.

Human body.

Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.

Papua New Guinea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offers a full-bodied approach to the study of culture in which each sense serves as a potent register of meaning.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foretaste

Acknowledgments

Part I. Making Sense in Anthropology

Chapter 1. Taking Leave of Our Senses: A Survey of the Senses and Critique of the Textual Revolution in Ethnographic Theory

Chapter 2. Coming to Our Senses: The Sensual Turn in Anthropological Understanding

Part 2. Melanesian Sensory Formations

Chapter 3. On the Pleasures of Fasting, Appearing, and Being Heard in the Massim World

Chapter 4. On Being in Good Taste: Gustatory Cannibalism and Exchange Psychology

Chapter 5. The Visible and the Invisible in a Middle Sepik Society

Chapter 6. Comparison of Massim and Middle Sepik Ways of Sensing the World

Part 3. Libidinal and Political Economies of the Senses

Chapter 7. Oedipus In/Out of the Trobriands: A Sensuous Critique of Freudian Theory

Chapter 8. The Material Body of the Commodity: Sensing Marx

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-272) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-59404-4

9786612594045

0-472-02622-4

OCLC:

615635629