Description:
Presents a history of the senses in the fields of anthropology, psychology, and law, identifying important shifts and key disciplinary concerns.
Brief description: David Howes is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University. His most recent publications include A Cultural History of the Senses in the Modern Age, 1920--2000 and The Sensory Studies Manifesto.
Review Quotes:
"Sensorial Investigations is a timely, exciting, and vitally important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of sensory studies, especially sensory anthropology and sensory history. Erudite and wide-ranging in scholarship, it is inventive in its argument and written in lively, engrossing prose by a leading light in the field."
--Peter Denney, author of The Senses in World History