Sensory Anthropology - Culture and Experience in Asia

"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"--

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kelvin E Y Low, Kelvin E. Y. Low, Kelvin E. Y. (National University of Singapor Low, Kelvin E. Y. (National University of Singapore) Low, Low Kelvin E. Y.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781009240833
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0924083-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Anthropology, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology & anthropology, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Sociology and anthropology