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UNISA996248066703316 |
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Autore |
Howes David |
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Titolo |
Sensual relations : engaging the senses in culture and social theory / / David Howes |
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Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-59404-4 |
9786612594045 |
0-472-02622-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (310 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology - Papua New Guinea |
Senses and sensation - Papua New Guinea |
Human body - Social aspects - Papua New Guinea |
Papua New Guinea Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-272) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Offers a full-bodied approach to the study of culture in which each sense serves as a potent register of meaning. |
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