1st Edition
Worlds of Sense Exploring the senses in history and across cultures
By Constance Classen
Copyright 1993
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1993, Worlds of Sense is an exploration of the historical and cultural formation of the senses. As the author demonstrates, different cultures have strikingly different ways of ‘making sense’ of the world. In the modern urban West, we are accustomed to thinking in terms of visual models such as ‘world view,’ whereas the Ongee of the Andaman Islands, for example, live in a... Read more
Acknowledgement Introduction: through the looking-glass 1. The odour of the rose: floral symbolism and the olfactory decline of the West 2. Natural wits: the sensory skills of ‘wild children’ 3. Words of sense 4. The odour of the other: olfactory codes and cultural categories 5. Literacy as anti-culture: the Andean experience of the written word 6. Worlds of sense Notes Bibliography Name index Subject index
Biography
Constance Classen
