Constance Classen
Biographic Data
| ID | 99676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance Classen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance |
| FAMILY NAME | Classen |
| SIGNATURE | CLASSEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 433 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
O museu como ambiente sensorial: Sensibilidades ocidentais e artefatos indígenas
Tradução do Capítulo 7 da obra Sensible Objects. Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture, editado por Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden e Ruth B. Phillips. London: Berg Publishers, [2006]; London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Tradução de Patrícia Rodrigues de Souza, gentilmente autorizada por Taylor & Francis Group, editora proprietária dos direitos autorais da obra
An Andean Cosmology
Cosmogonies, or creation myths, can vary significantly in the imagery they use to evoke the creative process. In one, the world may be moulded into existence, in another, spoken into existence, in another it may arise from pure thought, and so on. The method(s) of creation manifested by the cosmogony of a particular culture is therefore often revealing not only of that culture&s;s symbolic order, but also of its sensory order, the relative import…
Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures
The Book of Touch
FINAL Fingerprints: Writing About Constance Classen, Concordia University I. Contact Contact Constance Classen, Concordia University Tactile Communication Ruth Finnegan, Open University Social Skin: Culture and Tactility David Howes, Concordia University Handling Children: To Touch or Not to Touch? Anthony Synnott, Concordia University American Touch: Tactile Imagery in American Religion and Politics' David Chidester, University of Cape Town, Sou…
The senses at the National Gallery: Art as sensory recreation and regulation in Victorian England
In 1850, the keeper of the National Gallery in London described the museum as being frequented by "school boys eating bread and cheese" and country folk who "drew their chairs round and sat down, and seemed to make themselves very comfortable". As for the pictures on the walls, these were smeared with the fingerprints of inquiring gallery-goers. The tension between the National Gallery as an unfussy place of recreation, in which visitors could en…
Touching the Deep Past: The Lure of Ancient Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Museums and Culture
The nineteenth century was fascinated with the display of human remains in museums. The most celebrated of such exhibits was the Egyptian mummy, which served as the subject of a range of sensorial investigations. Museum mummies were gawked at and sometimes handled by museum goers. Outside of the museum, mummy unwrappings were popular public spectacles. Travelers to Egypt often brought back a mummy hand or foot as an essential tourist souvenir. Sc…
Ways of Sensing: Understanding the Senses in Society
Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and space. The chapters reflect on topics such as the tactile appeal of medieval art, the healing power of Navajo sand paintings, the aesthetic blight of …
The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch
From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world. Now, for the first time, this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical exploration. This book fleshes out our understanding of the past with explorations of lived experiences of embodiment from the Middle Ages to modernity. This approach to history makes it possible to foreground the tactile foundations of Western culture—the w…
Museum Manners: The Sensory Life of the Early Museum
Many contemporary museums are challenging the traditional "hands off" ethos of the museum with innovative, interactive exhibitions. Yet such exhibitions are still exceptions to the rule of sensory restraint which is generally expected to govern the behaviour of museum visitors. Artifacts for the most part are only to be seen—not felt, smelt, sounded and certainly not tasted. Yet, this rule of sensory restraint is not intrinsic to the museum. Acco…
Hearing cultures: Essays on sound, listening and modernity - Edited by Veit Erlmann
"La perception sauvage. Étude sur les ordres sensoriels des enfants " sauvages
La perception sauvage Étude sur les ordres sensoriels des enfants " sauvages " Cet essai se veut une étude de trois cas classiques d'enfants " sauvages " : l'enfant sauvage de l'Aveyron, les enfants-loups de l'Inde et Kaspar Hauser. Ces cas sont examinés pour ce qu'ils peuvent nous apporter sur les ordres sensoriels, ou modes de perception, de tels enfants. On a constaté que chaque enfant connaît un ordre sensoriel particulier, lequel semble avoi…
L'arôme de la marchandise. La commercialisation de l'olfactif
L'arôme de la marchandise La commercialisation de l'olfactif Cet article montre comment la relation qu'entretiennent les Nord-Américains avec leur corps se fait maintenant par l'entremise de divers articles de toilette (savon, déodorant, rince-bouche) qui offrent au consommateur une protection contre le rejet social en éliminant ou en supprimant les odeurs corporelles indésirables. Les auteurs y relatent la petite histoire du marketing de ces pro…
Other Ways to Wisdom: Learning Through the Senses Across Cultures
Foundations for an anthropology of the senses
Engendering Perception: Gender Ideologies and Sensory Hierarchies in Western History
Aroma: The Cutural History of Smell
Inca cosmology and the human body
The Odor of the Other: Olfactory Symbolism and Cultural Categories
Literacy as Anticulture: The Andean Experience of the Written Word
Aesthetics and Asceticism in Inca Religion
The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology. Paul STOLLER
Sweet colors, fragrant songs: Sensory models of the Andes and the Amazon
The indigenous peoples of South America culturally code sensory perceptions in varied and complex ways. This article outlines and compares the sensory models of indigenous cultures from two contrasting South American regions: the central Andean highlands and the Amazonian lowlands. While the various peoples of the Andes appear to share the same basic sensory model, those of the Amazon manifest significant differences in the symbolic values they a…
Foundations for an anthropology of the senses
The Odor of the Other: Olfactory Symbolism and Cultural Categories
Sweet colors, fragrant songs: Sensory models of the Andes and the Amazon
The indigenous peoples of South America culturally code sensory perceptions in varied and complex ways. This article outlines and compares the sensory models of indigenous cultures from two contrasting South American regions: the central Andean highlands and the Amazonian lowlands. While the various peoples of the Andes appear to share the same basic sensory model, those of the Amazon manifest significant differences in the symbolic values they a…
Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures
Inca cosmology and the human body
Museum Manners: The Sensory Life of the Early Museum
Many contemporary museums are challenging the traditional "hands off" ethos of the museum with innovative, interactive exhibitions. Yet such exhibitions are still exceptions to the rule of sensory restraint which is generally expected to govern the behaviour of museum visitors. Artifacts for the most part are only to be seen—not felt, smelt, sounded and certainly not tasted. Yet, this rule of sensory restraint is not intrinsic to the museum. Acco…
Engendering Perception: Gender Ideologies and Sensory Hierarchies in Western History
Other Ways to Wisdom: Learning Through the Senses Across Cultures
Literacy as Anticulture: The Andean Experience of the Written Word
Touching the Deep Past: The Lure of Ancient Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Museums and Culture
The nineteenth century was fascinated with the display of human remains in museums. The most celebrated of such exhibits was the Egyptian mummy, which served as the subject of a range of sensorial investigations. Museum mummies were gawked at and sometimes handled by museum goers. Outside of the museum, mummy unwrappings were popular public spectacles. Travelers to Egypt often brought back a mummy hand or foot as an essential tourist souvenir. Sc…
The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology. Paul STOLLER
"La perception sauvage. Étude sur les ordres sensoriels des enfants " sauvages
La perception sauvage Étude sur les ordres sensoriels des enfants " sauvages " Cet essai se veut une étude de trois cas classiques d'enfants " sauvages " : l'enfant sauvage de l'Aveyron, les enfants-loups de l'Inde et Kaspar Hauser. Ces cas sont examinés pour ce qu'ils peuvent nous apporter sur les ordres sensoriels, ou modes de perception, de tels enfants. On a constaté que chaque enfant connaît un ordre sensoriel particulier, lequel semble avoi…
Aesthetics and Asceticism in Inca Religion
The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology. Paul STOLLER
Sweet colors, fragrant songs: Sensory models of the Andes and the Amazon
The indigenous peoples of South America culturally code sensory perceptions in varied and complex ways. This article outlines and compares the sensory models of indigenous cultures from two contrasting South American regions: the central Andean highlands and the Amazonian lowlands. While the various peoples of the Andes appear to share the same basic sensory model, those of the Amazon manifest significant differences in the symbolic values they a…
Literacy as Anticulture: The Andean Experience of the Written Word
The Odor of the Other: Olfactory Symbolism and Cultural Categories
Inca cosmology and the human body
Aroma: The Cutural History of Smell
Foundations for an anthropology of the senses
Engendering Perception: Gender Ideologies and Sensory Hierarchies in Western History
Other Ways to Wisdom: Learning Through the Senses Across Cultures
"La perception sauvage. Étude sur les ordres sensoriels des enfants " sauvages
La perception sauvage Étude sur les ordres sensoriels des enfants " sauvages " Cet essai se veut une étude de trois cas classiques d'enfants " sauvages " : l'enfant sauvage de l'Aveyron, les enfants-loups de l'Inde et Kaspar Hauser. Ces cas sont examinés pour ce qu'ils peuvent nous apporter sur les ordres sensoriels, ou modes de perception, de tels enfants. On a constaté que chaque enfant connaît un ordre sensoriel particulier, lequel semble avoi…
L'arôme de la marchandise. La commercialisation de l'olfactif
L'arôme de la marchandise La commercialisation de l'olfactif Cet article montre comment la relation qu'entretiennent les Nord-Américains avec leur corps se fait maintenant par l'entremise de divers articles de toilette (savon, déodorant, rince-bouche) qui offrent au consommateur une protection contre le rejet social en éliminant ou en supprimant les odeurs corporelles indésirables. Les auteurs y relatent la petite histoire du marketing de ces pro…
Hearing cultures: Essays on sound, listening and modernity - Edited by Veit Erlmann
Museum Manners: The Sensory Life of the Early Museum
Many contemporary museums are challenging the traditional "hands off" ethos of the museum with innovative, interactive exhibitions. Yet such exhibitions are still exceptions to the rule of sensory restraint which is generally expected to govern the behaviour of museum visitors. Artifacts for the most part are only to be seen—not felt, smelt, sounded and certainly not tasted. Yet, this rule of sensory restraint is not intrinsic to the museum. Acco…
The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch
From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world. Now, for the first time, this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical exploration. This book fleshes out our understanding of the past with explorations of lived experiences of embodiment from the Middle Ages to modernity. This approach to history makes it possible to foreground the tactile foundations of Western culture—the w…
Ways of Sensing: Understanding the Senses in Society
Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and space. The chapters reflect on topics such as the tactile appeal of medieval art, the healing power of Navajo sand paintings, the aesthetic blight of …
Touching the Deep Past: The Lure of Ancient Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Museums and Culture
The nineteenth century was fascinated with the display of human remains in museums. The most celebrated of such exhibits was the Egyptian mummy, which served as the subject of a range of sensorial investigations. Museum mummies were gawked at and sometimes handled by museum goers. Outside of the museum, mummy unwrappings were popular public spectacles. Travelers to Egypt often brought back a mummy hand or foot as an essential tourist souvenir. Sc…
The Book of Touch
FINAL Fingerprints: Writing About Constance Classen, Concordia University I. Contact Contact Constance Classen, Concordia University Tactile Communication Ruth Finnegan, Open University Social Skin: Culture and Tactility David Howes, Concordia University Handling Children: To Touch or Not to Touch? Anthony Synnott, Concordia University American Touch: Tactile Imagery in American Religion and Politics' David Chidester, University of Cape Town, Sou…
The senses at the National Gallery: Art as sensory recreation and regulation in Victorian England
In 1850, the keeper of the National Gallery in London described the museum as being frequented by "school boys eating bread and cheese" and country folk who "drew their chairs round and sat down, and seemed to make themselves very comfortable". As for the pictures on the walls, these were smeared with the fingerprints of inquiring gallery-goers. The tension between the National Gallery as an unfussy place of recreation, in which visitors could en…
Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures
An Andean Cosmology
Cosmogonies, or creation myths, can vary significantly in the imagery they use to evoke the creative process. In one, the world may be moulded into existence, in another, spoken into existence, in another it may arise from pure thought, and so on. The method(s) of creation manifested by the cosmogony of a particular culture is therefore often revealing not only of that culture&s;s symbolic order, but also of its sensory order, the relative import…
O museu como ambiente sensorial: Sensibilidades ocidentais e artefatos indígenas
Tradução do Capítulo 7 da obra Sensible Objects. Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture, editado por Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden e Ruth B. Phillips. London: Berg Publishers, [2006]; London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Tradução de Patrícia Rodrigues de Souza, gentilmente autorizada por Taylor & Francis Group, editora proprietária dos direitos autorais da obra
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