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  • WORLDS OF SENSE
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    WORLDS OF SENSE
    CONSTANCE CLASSEN
    First published in 1993, Worlds of Sense is an exploration of the historical and cultural formation of the senses. As the author demonstrates, different cultures have strikingly different ways of ‘making sense’ of the world. In the modern urban West, we are accustomed to thinking in terms of visual models such as ‘world view,’ whereas the Ongee of the Andaman Islands, for examp...

    $840.00

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  • THE BOOK OF TOUCH
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    THE BOOK OF TOUCH
    CONSTANCE CLASSEN
    This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity, and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familia...

    $1,100.00

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  • WAYS OF SENSING
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    WAYS OF SENSING
    DAVID HOWES / CONSTANCE CLASSEN
    Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and space. The chapters reflect on topics such as the tactile appeal of medieval art...

    $1,280.00

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  • AROMA
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    AROMA
    CONSTANCE CLASSEN / DAVID HOWES / ANTHONY SYNNOTT
    Smell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its socia...

    $1,460.00

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  • THE COLOUR OF ANGELS
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    THE COLOUR OF ANGELS
    CONSTANCE CLASSEN
    The Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages through to nineteenth-century art movements, this book reveals a previously unexplored area of womens history. ...

    $1,420.00

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