Sensual relations [electronic resource] : engaging the senses in culture and social theory / David Howes.

ISBN:

9780472026227

9780472098460

Title:

Sensual relations [electronic resource] : engaging the senses in culture and social theory / David Howes.

Author:

Howes, David, 1957- author.

Personal Author:

Howes, David, 1957- author.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

Taking leave of our senses : a survey of the senses and critique of the textual revolution in ethnographic theory -- Coming to our senses : the sensual turn in anthropological understanding -- On the pleasures of fasting, appearing, and being heard in the Massim world -- On being in good taste : gustatory cannibalism and exchange psychology -- The visible and the invisible in a middle Sepik society -- Comparison of Massim and middle Sepik ways of sensing the world -- Oedipus in/out of the Trobriands : a sensuous critique of Freudian theory -- The material body of the commodity : sensing Marx.

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Subject Term:

Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea.

Senses and sensation -- Papua New Guinea.

Human body -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea.

Geographic Term:

Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.

Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée -- Mœurs et coutumes.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2003

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Summary

With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual Relations contests the conventional exclusion of sensuality from intellectual inquiry and reclaims sensation as a fundamental domain of social theory.
David Howes is Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.