About Senses and Sensation

Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources offers a comprehensive collection of key writings essential to anyone
wishing to gain a critical understanding of sensory studies. The four volumes include 101 essays from leading scholars in
the humanities, social sciences, arts and design, biology, psychology and the neurosciences.

Drawing upon historical and contemporary texts from a wide range of sources, this set is inspired by the sensory turn in
the humanities, social sciences and fine arts which has challenged the monopoly that psychology formerly held over the
study of senses and sensation. It also builds upon the revolution in psychology and the neurosciences which has led to an
increased emphasis on the interaction and integration of the senses, in place of the one-sense-at-a-time approach.

Ordered by discipline, the volumes cover geography and anthropology, history and sociology, biology, psychology and
neuroscience, and art and design. Each volume is separately introduced and the essays structured into coherent sections
on specific themes.
Table of contents
Volume 1: Geography and Anthropology
Introduction: On the Geography and Anthropology of the Senses, David Howes

Part I: Foundation
Overtures
1. The Background to Pure Geography, Olavi Granö and Anssi Paasi
2. Alternating Sounds, Franz Boas
3. Sensible Qualities, Claude Lévi-Strauss in conversation with Didier Erbon
4. Sensing the World in Cross-Cultural Perspective, David Le Breton
Disciplines
5. The Senses in Focus, Douglas Pocock
6. Geography of the Senses, Paul Rodaway
7. Anthropology of the Senses, David Howes

Part II: Key Domains and Concepts

Cosmology/Ecology
8. 'Blowing 'cross the crest of Mount Galeng': Winds of the Voice, Winds of the Spirits, Marina Roseman
9. Topophilia, Yi-Fu Tuan
Emplacement
10. Feeling is Believing, or Landscape as a Way of Being in the World, Edmunds Valdemars Bunkše Materiality
11. Enduring and Endearing: Feelings and the Transformation of Material Culture in West Africa, Kathryn Linn Geurts and
Elvis Gershon Adikah
Memory
12. The Memory of the Senses – Marks of the Transitory: The Breast of Aphrodite, C. Nadia Seremetakis
13. Sensing the Ruin, Tim Edensor
Alterity
14. Immigrant Lives and the Politics of Olfaction in the Global City, Martin F. Manalansan IV
15. Sensing Muslim Difference, Youshaa Patel
Mediation
16. Literacy as Anti-Culture: The Andean Experience of the Written Word, Constance Classen
Movement
17. Culture on the Ground: The World Perceived through the Feet, Tim Ingold
Affect
18. Using 'the Body' as an Instrument of Research: Kimch'i and Pavlova, Robyn Longhurst, Elsie Ho, Lynda Johnston
19. Ordinary Affects, Kathleen Stewart
Representation
20. Leviathan and the Experience of Sensory Ethnography, Christopher Pavsek
21. Cybercartography: A Multisensory Approach, D.R. Fraser Taylor with Patricia Leean Trbovich, Gitte Lindgaard and
Richard F. Dillon
Gustation
22. The Sensory Experience of Food, Lisa Heldke, Carolyn Korsmeyer and David Sutton
Synaesthesia/Intersensoriality
23. Brain and Mind in Desana Shamanism, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
24. Synesthesia, Metaphor and Symbolic Space, Yi-Fu Tuan

Part III: Exhibitions

25. Woman, Fire, Ambition, and Desire: The Idea and Performance of the Great Baga D'mba (Exhibition Project Narrative),
Frederick Lamp
26. Creating Mami Wata: An Interactive, Sensory Exhibition, Henry J. Drewal
27. Walking Without Purpose: Sensations of History and Memory in Nagasaki City, Rupert Cox

Volume 2: History and Sociology

Introduction: On the History and Sociology of the Senses, David Howes

Part I: Foundations
Overtures
1. Huizinga on Historical Experience, Frank Ankersmit
2. Smells, Tastes, Sounds and the Underdevelopment of Sight, Lucien Febvre
3. Shock and Distraction: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, Dorothée Brill
Disciplines
4. The Senses in History, Martin Jay
5. Sociology of the Senses, Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, and Simon Gottschalk

Part II: Key Domains and Concepts

Cosmology/Ecology
6. On the Color of Angels: The Sensory Cosmologies of St. Hildegard, Boehme, and Fourier, Constance Classen
Emplacement
7. The Everyday City of the Senses, Mónica Degen
Materiality
8. The Performative Icon, Bissera V. Pentcheva
9. Outcomes of Secularization Theory for Visual and Material Religion, Sally M. Promey
Memory
10. The Proust Effect: Uplifting Musicial Memories and Sensory Reminiscence in Older People, Cretien van Campen
Alterity
11. Uncertainty and Deliberative Thinking in Blind Race Attribution, Asia Friedman
Mediation
12. Pens and Needles: Writing, Women's Work and Feminine Sensibilities, Constance Classen
13. Virtualization: Sensory Atrophy and Disconnection, Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, and Simon Gottschalk
Movement
14. Grasping the Phenomenology of Sporting Bodies, John Hockey and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson
15. Sporting Sensation, John F. Sherry Jr.
Affect
16. Russia's Carnival: The Sense-Experience of Transition, David Howes
17. Listening-Touch: Affect and the Crafting of Medical Bodies through Percussion, Anna Harris
Representation
18. Take Five: Renaissance Literature and the Study of the Senses, Patricia A. Cahill
Gustation
19. Sweetness, Michael Pollan
20. The Invention of Gastronomy, Luca Vercelloni
Synaesthesia/Intersensoriality
21. Color and Sound: Transcending the Limits of the Senses, Fay Zika
22. Synesthesia, Transformation and Synthesis: Toward a Multi-sensory Pedagogy of the Image, Silvia Casini

Part III: Exhibitions

23. On Method, Mark M. Smith
24. Ears-On Exhibitions: Sound in the History Museum, Karin Bijsterveld
25. War, Memory and the Senses in the Imperial War Museum London, 1920-2014, Alys Cundy

Volume 3: Biology, Psychology and Neuroscience

Introduction: On the Individuation/Integration of the Senses in Biology, Psychology and Neuroscience – An Orthogonal
View, David Howes

Part I: Foundations
Overtures
1. The Unity of the Senses, Erich M. Von Hornbostel
2. 'Taste-Smell Confusions' and the Duality of the Olfactory Sense, Paul Rozin
Disciplines
3. The Theory of Meaning, Jakob von Uexküll
4. Edison's Teeth: Touching Hearing, Steven Connor
5. Crossmodal Correspondences: A Synopsis, Charles Spence

Part II: Key Domains and Concepts

Cosmology/Ecology
6. Perception, Ecology and Music, Eric F. Clarke
Emplacement
7. Fingeryeyes: Impressions of Cup Coral, Eva Hayward
Materiality
8. Mechanical Tasting: Sensory Science and the Flavorization of Food Production, Ingemar Pettersson
9. Electromagnetism and the Nth Sense: Augmenting Senses in Grinder Subculture, Mark D. Doerksen
Memory
10. On Listening to a Dream: The Sensory Dimensions, Alfred Margulies
11. The Making of Mind in a West African Community: Anlo-Ewe Understandings of Embodied Cognition, Kathryn Linn
Geurts
Alterity
12. The Menagerie of the Senses, Steven Connor
13. An Auditory World: Music and Blindness, Oliver Sacks
Mediation
14. Interactive Sonification for Data Exploration, Florian Grond and Thomas Hermann
15. Vision and the 'Training of Perception': McLuhan's Medienpadägogik, Norm Friesen
Movement
16. Seeing with a 'Sideways Glance': Visuomotor 'Knowing' and the Plasticity of Perception, Greg Downey
Affect
17. What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi
Representation
18. An Empire of Sound: Sentience, Sonar and Sensory Impudence, John Shiga
19. Cultural Factors Shape Olfactory Language, Asifa Majid
Gustation
20. Wine and Music, Charles Spence
Synaesthesia/Intersensoriality
21. Synesthesia on Our Mind, Lawrence E. Marks and Catherine M. Mulvenna
22. Synaesthesia Unravelled, David Howes and Constance Classen

Part III: Exhibitions

23. Making Sense of the Senses across Species Boundaries: Curating the Animal Senses Gallery at National Museums
Scotland, Andrew C. Kitchener
24. Tate Sensorium (Exhibition Project Narrative) Flying Object

Volume 4: Art and Design

Introduction: Sensory Art and Design, David Howes

Part I: Foundations
Overtures
1. Sensory Separation and the Founding of Art History, Fiona Candlin
2. All-Consuming Images: The Marriage Between Art and Commerce, Stuart Ewen
Disciplines
3. Twentieth Century Visual Art, Design, Music and the Senses, Ian Heywood
4. Disciplining the Senses: Beethoven as Synaesthetic Paradigm, Simon Shaw-Miller
5. Sensing Materials: Exploring the Building Blocks for Experiential Design, Hendrik N. J. Schifferstein and Lisa Wastiels

Part II: Key Domains and Concepts

Cosmology/Ecology
6. Visualizing: Design, Communicative Objectivity and the Interface since 1945, Orit Halpern
Emplacement
7. Resonances: Experimental Encounters with Sound Art in the Making, Chris Salter
8. Atmospheric Architecture: Elements, Processes and Practices, Mikkel Bille and Tim Flohr Sørensen.
Materiality
9. Stuff Matters: Glass, Mark Miodownik
10. Sensuality and Shag Carpeting: A Design Review of a Postwar Floor Covering, Chad Randl
Memory
11. Unofficial Memory: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment and the Senses, Laura U. Marks
Alterity
12. Remote Avant Garde: Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Jennifer Biddle
13. “Rasaesthetics”, Richard Schechner
Mediation
14. The Mediated Sensorium, Caroline A. Jones
Movement
15. “Sense, Meaning and Perception in Three Dance Cultures”, Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull
Affect
16. Sound Studies without Auditory Culture: A Critique of the Ontological Turn, Brian Kane
Representation
17. The Senses in Literature, 1920-2000: From the Modernist Shock of Sensation to Postcolonial and Virtual Voices, Ralf
Hertel
18. Towards a Multisensory Aesthetic: Jean Giono's Non-Visual Sensorium, Hannah Thompson
Gustation
19. Alimentary Art, 1909-2018, Mark Clintberg
Synaesthesia/Intersensoriality
20. Art and the Senses, 1800-1920: From the Romantics to the Futurists, Constance Classen
21. Sensing Things: Merleau-Ponty, Synaesthesia and Human-Centredness, Nigel Power

Part III: Exhibitions

22. Touch This, Stefan Szczelkun and Bill Arning
23. The Urban Sensorium, Alan Nash and Michael Carroll
24. Mediations of Sensation: Designing Performative Sensory Environments, David Howes and Chris Salter
25. A Feast for the Senses at The Walters Art Museum (Exhibition Project Narrative), Martina Bagnoli

Index
Appendix of Sources