Worlds of Sense: Exploring the senses in history and across cultures

by Constance Classen

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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 example, live in a world ordered by smell and the Tzotzil of Mexico...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1032439483

ISBN13:9781032439488

Release Date:February 2023

Publisher:Routledge

Length:184 Pages

Weight:0.97 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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History Social Science Social Sciences

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