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Record Nr.

UNISA996248066703316

Autore

Howes David

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-59404-4

9786612594045

0-472-02622-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/009953

Soggetti

Ethnology - Papua New Guinea

Senses and sensation - Papua New Guinea

Human body - Social aspects - Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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