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Product Description: The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally significant in all aspects of ancient life, often in ways that were complex and interconnected. Antiquity was also a period where the senses were experienced vividly: cities stank, statues were brightly painted and literature made full use of sensory imagery to create its effects...read more
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9780857853394 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 17, 2016, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings.
Product Description: The 19th century was a time of new sensory experiences and modes of perception. The raucous mechanical intensity of the train and the factory vied for attention with the dazzling splendour of department stores and world fairs. Colonization and trade carried European sensations and sensibilities to the world and, in turn, flooded the West with exotic sights and savours...read more
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9780857853431 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 17, 2016, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: The 19th century was a time of new sensory experiences and modes of perception.
Product Description: We know the Renaissance as a key period in the history of Europe. It saw the development of court and urban cultures, witnessed the first global voyages of discovery and gave rise to the Reformation and Counter Reformation. It also started with the 'invention' of oil painting, linear perspective and moveable type, all visual technologies...read more
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9780857853417 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 17, 2016, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: We know the Renaissance as a key period in the history of Europe.
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, the healing power of Navajo sand paintings, the aesthetic blight of the modern hospital, the role of the senses in the courtroom, and the branding of sensations in the marketplace. Howes and Classen consider how political issues such as nationalism, gender equality and the treatment of minority groups are shaped by sensory practices and metaphors. They also reveal how the phenomenon of synaesthesia, or mingling of the senses, can be seen as not simply a neurological condition but a vital cultural mode of creating social and cosmic interconnections. Written by leading scholars in the field, Ways of Sensing provides readers with a valuable and engaging introduction to the life of the senses in society.
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9780415697149 | Routledge, November 15, 2013, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses.
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9780415697156 | Routledge, December 12, 2013, cover price $47.95
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9780252034930 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 15, 2012, cover price $80.00
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9780252078590 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 15, 2012, cover price $27.00
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9781845204143 | Berg Pub Ltd, March 30, 2008, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: This book can be purchased by customers in the US or Canada from the University of California Press.
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9781845204150 | Berg Pub Ltd, March 30, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This book can be purchased by customers in the US or Canada from the University of California Press.
Product Description: Do we rely on different senses now than the ones we relied on in the past? How have our senses affected history? How have the senses themselves changed? What role have the senses played in the ways we discriminate? Exploring illuminating examples from antiquity to the twenty-first century, this lively, concise introduction to the essential, emerging field of sensory history presents a new way of looking at the past that takes the everyday, the average, and the banal as seriously as it takes the history of elites, the intellect, and the exceptional...read more
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9780520254954 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, February 4, 2008), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Do we rely on different senses now than the ones we relied on in the past?
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9780520254961 | Univ of California Pr, February 4, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Do we rely on different senses now than the ones we relied on in the past?
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9780801887376 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 2, 2008, cover price $26.95
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9780801887369 | 1 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 2, 2008), cover price $65.00
Product Description: This path-breaking book examines our attitudes to the senses from antiquity through to the present day. Robert Jutte explores a wealth of different traditions, images, metaphors and ideas that have survived through time and describes how sensual impressions change the way in which we experience the world...read more
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9780745629575 | Polity Pr, December 30, 2006, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: This path-breaking book examines our attitudes to the senses from antiquity through to the present day.
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9780745629582 | Polity Pr, December 30, 2006, cover price $39.95
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9780313323775 | Praeger Pub Text, June 30, 2003, cover price $94.00
Product Description: Sense perception, which is of enormous importance in Western philosophical traditions, has scarcely attracted the notice of scholars of early China. As a result of little direct comment on the senses in the Chinese philosophical classics, sinologists have generally interpreted their occassional references to sense functions in familiar Western philosophical terms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780824825577 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Sense perception, which is of enormous importance in Western philosophical traditions, has scarcely attracted the notice of scholars of early China.
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9780387987194 | Copernicus Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $21.95
Product Description: "Worlds of Sense" is an historical and cross-cultural study of the senses and the ways in which different cultures "make sense" of the world. In the West we think in terms of visual models such as "world view". The Ongee of the Andaman Islands live in a world ordered by smell and the Tzotzil of Mexico hold that temperature is the basic force of the cosmos...read more
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9780415095952 | Routledge, December 1, 1993, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: "Worlds of Sense" is an historical and cross-cultural study of the senses and the ways in which different cultures "make sense" of the world.
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9780415101264 | Routledge, December 1, 1993, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Will be dispatched from UK.
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9780671686444 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Argues that raw sensations are central to all conscious states, suggests how consciousness developed, and looks at the mind-body problem
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9780060975562 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 1993), cover price $13.00
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9780871133359 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Looks at how modern technology has changed the way we perceive the world, and compares modern impressions of the world with those of two hundred years ago
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9780679733324 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Looks at how modern technology has changed the way we perceive the world, and compares modern impressions of the world with those of two hundred years ago
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