ISBN:
9780271095011
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0271095016
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9780271095004
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0271095008
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xiv, 290 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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21 cm
Serie:
Perspectives on sensory history
DDC:
152.1
Schlagwort(e):
Senses and sensation History
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Senses and sensation Social aspects
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Anthropology History
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Psychology History
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Anthropology
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Psychology
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Senses and sensation
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Senses and sensation - Social aspects
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History
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Sinne
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Wahrnehmung
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Geschichte
Kurzfassung:
"Presents a history of the senses in the fields of anthropology, psychology, and law, identifying important shifts and key disciplinary concerns"--
Kurzfassung:
David Howes’s sweeping history of the senses in the disciplines of anthropology and psychology and in the field of law lays the foundations for a sensational jurisprudence, or a way to do justice to and by the senses of other people. In part 1, Howes demonstrates how sensory ethnography has yielded alternative insights into how the senses function and argues convincingly that each culture should be approached on its own sensory terms. Part 2 documents how the senses have been disciplined psychologically within the Western tradition, starting with Aristotle and moving through the rise of Lockean empiricism and cognitive neuroscience. Here, Howes presents an anthropologically informed critique of experimental and cognitive psychology, sensory science, and phenomenology. In part 3, he introduces the paradigm of the “historical anthropology of the senses and sensation” and applies it to the analysis of trade relations between Europe and China in the early modern period, to the treaty-making process in North America during the colonial period, and to all the unresolved disputes over land rights and Indigenous sovereignty that continue to this day, arguing that these differences are rooted in a cultural clash of sensoria. Designed for the classroom, Sensorial Investigations displays an expansive critical engagement with generations of scholarship. It is essential reading for students and scholars of the history and anthropology of the senses, the psychology of sensation, and socio-legal studies.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Prologue : uncommon sense -- The senses in anthropology -- The measurement of the senses -- The enculturation of the senses -- Breaking research in sensory anthropology -- The senses in psychology -- Unhinging the senses : from sensation to calculation -- Anthropology contra phenomenology, ecological psychology, and sensory science -- Between history and anthropology -- Sensory exchange : crossing disciplines -- Cross-cultural exchange as sensory exchange : the encounter between China and the West in the early modern period -- Smoke and mirrors : a sensory analysis of indigenous-settler commerce and covenants in North America -- Epilogue : the senses of justice.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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