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Art and the senses
The senses play a vital role in our health, our social interactions, and in enjoying food, music and the arts. The book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the senses, ranging from the neuroscience of sensory processing in the body, to the role of the senses in the arts.
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The Deepest Sense
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. The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch fleshes out our understanding of the past with explorations of lived experiences of embodiment from the Middle Ages to modernity. This intimate and sensuous approach to history makes it possible to foreground the tactile foundations of Western culture--the ways in which feelings shaped society._x000B__x000B_Constance Classen explores a variety of tactile realms including the feel of the medieval city; the tactile appeal of relics; the social histories of pain, pleasure, and affection; the bonds of touch between humans and animals; the strenuous excitement of sports such as wrestling and jousting; and the sensuous attractions of consumer culture. She delves into a range of vital issues, from the uses--and prohibitions--of touch in social interaction to the disciplining of the body by the modern state, from the changing feel of the urban landscape to the technologization of touch in modernity._x000B__x000B_Through poignant descriptions of the healing power of a medieval king's hand or the grueling conditions of a nineteenth-century prison, we find that history, far from being a dry and lifeless subject, touches us to the quick.
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Cold, crunchy, colorful : using our senses
\"Combining simple text with gorgeous photos, the latest addition to Jane Brocket's Clever Concepts series encourages children to use all five of their senses (and the corresponding body parts associated with those senses) to investigate the world around them.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sensorial investigations : a history of the senses in anthropology, psychology, and law
No detailed description available for \"Sensorial Investigations\".
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Understanding the senses
Straightforward and concise information, supplemented by helpful photographs and illustrations, explains just how the senses work.
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The Senses and the English Reformation
It is a commonly held belief that medieval Catholics were focussed on the 'bells and whistles' of religious practices, the smoke, images, sights and sounds that dazzled pre-modern churchgoers. Protestantism, in contrast, has been cast as Catholicism's austere, intellective and less sensual rival sibling. With iis white-washed walls, lack of incense (and often music) Protestantism worship emphasised preaching and scripture, making the new religion a drab and disengaged sensual experience. In order to challenge such entrenched assumptions, this book examines Tudor views on the senses to create a new lens through which to explore the English Reformation. Divided into two sections, the book begins with an examination of pre-Reformation beliefs and practices, establishing intellectual views on the senses in fifteenth-century England, and situating them within their contemporary philosophical and cultural tensions. Having established the parameters for the role of sense before the Reformation, the second half of the book mirrors these concerns in the post-1520 world, looking at how, and to what degree, the relationship between religious practices and sensation changed as a result of the Reformation. By taking this long-term, binary approach, the study is able to tackle fundamental questions regarding the role of the senses in late-medieval and early modern English Christianity. By looking at what English men and women thought about sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, the stereotype that Protestantism was not sensual, and that Catholicism was overly sensualised is wholly undermined. Through this examination of how worship was transformed in its textual and liturgical forms, the book illustrates how English religion sought to reflect changing ideas surrounding the senses and their place in religious life. Worship had to be 'sensible', and following how reformers and their opponents built liturgy around experience of the sacred through the physical allows us to tease out the tensions and pressures which shaped religious reform.
Dr Matthew Milner is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Studies and Digital Humanities at McGill University, Canada
Contents: Introduction: towards thinking about sensation in Tudor religion; The senses and sensing in 15th-century England; Religiosity and sensing in pre-Reformation England; The senses and worship: provision for liturgy in late-medieval England; Sensing pre-Reformation English liturgy; Sensory landscapes of Reformation England; Perception, polity, and gostly thynges in Reformation England; Sensible reformation in mid-Tudor England; Sensing and worship in Elizabethan England; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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Sensual relations
With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual Relations contests the conventional exclusion of sensuality from intellectual inquiry and reclaims sensation as a fundamental domain of social theory.
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Where we meet the world : the story of the senses
\"Our senses are what make life worth living. They allow us to appreciate a sip of an ice-cold drink, the sound of laughter, the touch of a lover. But only recently have incredible advances in sensory biology given us the ability to understand how and why our senses evolved as they have. In Where We Meet the World, biologist Ashley Ward takes readers on a breathtaking tour of how our senses function. Ward looks at not only the five major senses--vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch--but also a host of other senses, such as balance and interoception, the sense of the body's internal state. Drawing on new research, he explores how our senses interact with and regulate each other, and he uncovers what we can learn from how other animals--and even bacteria--encounter the world. Full of warmth and humor, Where We Meet the World shows how new insights in biology transform our understanding of the relationship between ourselves and our environment, revealing the vibrancy--and strangeness--of both\"-- Amazon.
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Pygmalion’s Power
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
animation of the material image and practices associated with
sculpture were considered both superstitious and idolatrous. In
Pygmalion's Power , Thomas E. A. Dale argues that the
reintroduction of architectural sculpture after a hiatus of some
seven hundred years arose with the particular goal of engaging the
senses in a Christian religious experience.
Since the term \"Romanesque\" was coined in the nineteenth
century, the reintroduction of stone sculpture around the
mid-eleventh century has been explained as a revivalist phenomenon,
one predicated on the desire to claim the authority of ancient
Rome. In this study, Dale proposes an alternative theory. Covering
a broad range of sculpture types-including autonomous cult statuary
in wood and metal, funerary sculpture, architectural sculpture, and
portraiture-Dale shows how the revitalized art form was part of a
broader shift in emphasis toward spiritual embodiment and affective
piety during the late eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Adding fresh insight to scholarship on the Romanesque,
Pygmalion's Power borrows from trends in cultural
anthropology to demonstrate the power and potential of these
sculptures to produce emotional effects that made them an important
sensory part of the religious culture of the era.
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