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Sensual relations: engaging the senses in culture and social theory

David Howes
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page ix)
  • FORETASTE (page xi)
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xxv)
  • PART 1. Making Sense in Anthropology
    • CHAPTER 1. Taking Leave of Our Senses A Survey of the Senses and Critique of the Textual Revolution in Ethnographic Theory (page 3)
    • CHAPTER 2. Coming to Our Senses The Sensual Turn in Anthropological Understanding (page 29)
  • PART 2. Melanesian Sensory Formations
    • CHAPTER 3. On the Pleasures of Fasting, Appearing, and Being Heard in the Massim World (page 61)
    • CHAPTER 4. On Being in Good Taste Gustatory Cannibalism and Exchange Psychology (page 95)
    • CHAPTER 5. The Visible and the Invisible in a Middle Sepik Society (page 124)
    • CHAPTER 6. Comparison of Massim and Middle Sepik Ways of Sensing the World (page 160)
  • PART 3. Libidinal and Political Economies of the Senses
    • CHAPTER 7. Oedipus In/Out of the Trobriands A Sensuous Critique of Freudian Teory (page 175)
    • CHAPTER 8. The Material Body of the Commodity Sensing Marx (page 204)
  • NOTES (page 235)
  • REFERENCES (page 249)
  • INDEX (page 273)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CS 35.1 (Jan. 2006): 83-84 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30045708
JRAI 11.1 (Mar. 2005): 164 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3804014
CA 46.4 (August/October 2005): 688-689 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/432823
AANTH 107.2 (Jun. 2005): 293-294 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3567775
JAF 120.475 (Winter 2007): 121-123 http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_american_folklore/v120/120.475nayar.html
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Published: c2003
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780472098460 (hardcover)
  • 9780472026227 (ebook)
  • 9780472068463 (paper)
Subject
  • Religion
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