Kelvin E. Y. Low (National University of Singapore)

Sensory Anthropology

Culture and Experience in Asia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Illustrated with a wide range of examples, this pioneering book analyses how the senses in everyday life manifest across Asian communities and cultures, and how they impact social order and disorder. Balancing ethnographic depth with analytical discussion, it is essential reading for students and researchers in social and cultural anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781009240833
• ISBN-10: 1009240838
• Artikelnr.: 66130826

Autorenporträt

Kelvin E .Y. Low is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. His previous books include Scents and Scent-sibilities (2009), Everyday Life in Asia (co-edited with D. Kalekin-Fishman, 2010), Remembering the Samsui Women (2014), and Senses in Cities (co-edited with D. Kalekin-Fishman, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction - How The Senses are Good to Think With
Part I. Perspectives and Precepts: 1. Sensory models and modalities
2. Sensory moral economies: Part II. Responses and Restitutions: 3. Sensory transnationalism and interfaces
4. Gastropolitical encounters
5. Extreme sensescapes
Conclusion - Thinking Through the Senses
Notes
Bibliography
Index.