Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory

by David Howes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472068466
• ISBN13: 9780472068463
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"