Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory

by David Howes

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With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual Relations contests the conventional exclusion...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0472068466

ISBN13:9780472068463

Release Date:October 2003

Publisher:University of Michigan Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"

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Cultural Ethnic Studies Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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