9780415095952-0415095956-Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures

Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780415095952
ISBN-10: 0415095956
Author: Constance Classen
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover 172 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780415095952
ISBN-10: 0415095956
Author: Constance Classen
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover 172 pages

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Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures (ISBN-13: 9780415095952 and ISBN-10: 0415095956), written by authors Constance Classen, was published by Routledge in 2016. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.47.

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"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. What different modes of consciousness are created by treating smell or touch as a fundamental way of knowing? How does the sensory order of a culture relate to its social order? Is there a natural order of the senses? By asking such searching questions of different cultures, Constance Classen aims to illustrate that the differences in sensory perception can be striking. "Worlds of Sense" argues that perception cannot be treated as a purely physical act but that the list, hierarchy and ordering of the senses are deeply related to time and culture.
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