The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture
A Sociology of the Senses
By Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, Simon Gottschalk
Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge – 190 pages
Description
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical, recent, and emerging scholarship and grounded in original empirical data that deepens the review and analysis. By bridging cultural/qualitative sociology and cultural/humanistic anthropology, The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture explicitly blurs boundaries that are particularly weak in this field due to the ethnographic scope of much research. Serving both the sociological and anthropological constituencies at once means bridging ethnographic traditions, cultural foci, and socioecological approaches to embodiment and sensuousness. The Senses in Self,Society, and Culture is intended to be a milestone in the social sciences’ somatic turn.
Reviews
"Vannini (communication and culture, Royal Roads Univ., Canada), Waskul (sociology, Minnesota State Univ.), and Gottschalk (sociology, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas) have produced a marvelous slim book outlining a sociology of the senses….Richly and evocatively written, this book will interest interdisciplinary scholars concerned with the body and somatics, senses, and sensuality" —CHOICE, J. L. Croissant, University of Arizona
Contents
Selected Contents:Part 1: Understanding Sensory Studies. 1. Toward a Sociology of the Senses. 2 The Sensual Body. 3 Sensual Ritual and Performance. 4 Sensuous Scholarship. Part 2: Doing Sensory Research. 5. The Sensuous Self and Identity. 6. A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time. 7. The Sensory Order. 8. Media, Consumer, and Material Culture.
Author Bio
Phillip Vannini is Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at
Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada, and Canada Research Chair in
Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography. He is author and editor of eight
books, including Understanding Society through Popular Music (with Joe
Kotarba, 2006, Routledge), and FerryTales:An Ethnography of Mobilities, Place,
and Time on Canada’s West Coast (2011, Routledge).
Dennis Waskul is Professor of sociology at Minnesota State University,
Mankato. He is author of Self-Games and Body-Play (2003, Peter Lang),
production editor for Symbolic Interaction, editor of net.seXXX (2004, Peter
Lang), and co-editor of Body/Embodiment (2006, Ashgate). He has published
numerous studies on the sociology of the body, senses, sexualities, and
computer-mediated communications.
Simon Gottschalk is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas. He was editor of Symbolic Interaction (2003–2007), and is
the author of numerous articles and book chapters on self-environment relations, postmodern culture, social psychology, qualitative
research, the mass media, and interaction in virtual environments.
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Description: By Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, Simon Gottschalk. The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven...
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