Senses, Anthropology of

Bibliographic Data

ID22366809
AuthorsR Cox (0000-0003-3693-5281, University of Manchester, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages1-12
Publication date2018-09-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2377
OpenAlexW2943924428
ISBN9781118924396
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited31

The anthropology of the senses is based on Constance Classen's deceptively simple proposition that sensory perception is a cultural as well as a physical act, but it derives from modern theses about their determination by the forces of history, ocularcentrism, and technological mediation and from anthropological debates about the role of the body, the representation of experience, the philosophy of phenomenology, and the material role of the senses in the politics of perception. Anthropological research on the senses has stressed their centrality in the shaping of social practice and culture and also their role in the conduct and reflexive experience of fieldwork, raising questions about and suggesting alternatives to ethnographic forms of representation. Debates about the nature of the “separation” and the “relationship” between the senses have had implications for the representation of sensory experience and embodied phenomena in anthropology and for what has become known as sensory ethnography

Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Mediation · Perception · Philosophical anthropology · Political science · Politics · Proposition · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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