A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in expert and everyday settings around the world. Anna Harris shows that our sensing is not innate or acquired, but in fact evolves through learning that is shaped by social and material relations. The chapters feature diverse sources of sensory education, including field manuals, mannequins, cookbooks and flavour charts. The examples range from medical training and forest bathing to culinary and perfumery classes. Offering a valuable guide to the uncanny and taken-for-granted ways in which adults are trained to improve their senses, this book will be of interest to disciplines including anthropology and sociology as well as food studies and sensory studies.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003084341 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Introduction
Lesson 1 How to make a cyanometer and other lessons in blue
1. New vocabularies
Lesson 2 How to teach medicine, with food
2. Sensory school
Lesson 3 How to knit a uterus
3. Sensory instructions
Lesson 4 Sensory food gatherings
4. Workshopping
Lesson 5 Make your own lesson
5. Repackaging sensations
Lesson 6 Observation exercises
6. Engineering noticing
Something sensible by way of a conclusion
Index
Biography
Anna Harris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Society Studies at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
