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

• Autore: Howes David
• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/009953
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Papua New Guinea; Senses and sensation - Papua New Guinea; Human body - Social aspects - Papua New Guinea
• Soggetto geografico: Papua New Guinea Social life and customs
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sensual relations
• ISBN: 1-282-59404-4; 9786612594045; 0-472-02622-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975032903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II