The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform
research across the social sciences and humanities, and is currently inspiring …

David Howes's sweeping history of the senses in the disciplines of anthropology and
psychology and in the field of law lays the foundations for a sensational jurisprudence, or a …

This article presents a critical evaluation of the work of Tim Ingold from the standpoint of
social and sensory anthropology. It acknowledges the novelty of the emphasis on …

Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in ancient Greece and Rome.
How, for example, did the slaves, visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home …

How many senses are there, really? Do the senses have a history? What makes smell'the
affective sense'par excellence? Are the senses so many independent channels, or do they …

This book offers a systematic, chronological analysis of the role played by the human senses
in experiencing pilgrimage and sacred places, past and present. It thus addresses two major …

An ontological approach to medieval archaeobotany could assist in uncovering otherwise
obscure evidence of complex human-plant interactions. In particular, archaeobotanical …

This paper begins by tracing the sensory turn in the human sciences—most notably, history
and anthropology—which, in turn, gave rise to the interdisciplinary field of sensory studies …

Pushed to the height of its illusionistic powers during the first centuries of the Roman Empire,
sculpture was largely abandoned with the ascendancy of Christianity, as the apparent …

This chapter begins with a description of the sensory turn in the disciplines of history and
anthropology, which foregrounded the senses as both object of study and means of inquiry …