ISBN:
9781000884333
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (185 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Revivals Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302/.12
Keywords:
Senses and sensation-History
;
Senses and sensation-Cross-cultural studies
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
First published in 1993, Worlds of Sense is an exploration of the historical and cultural formation of the senses.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: through the looking-glass -- Part I The senses in history -- 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 -- Part II The senses across cultures -- 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.
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