A sensory education / Anna Harris.

  • Harris, Anna
Date:
2021
  • Books

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Description

"A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in expert and everyday settings around the world. Anna Harris shows that our sensing is not innate or acquired, but in fact evolves through learning that is shaped by social and material relations. The chapters feature diverse sources of sensory education, including field manuals, mannequins, cookbooks and flavour charts. The examples range from medical training and yoga retreats to culinary and perfumery classes. Offering a valuable guide to the uncanny and taken-for-granted ways in which adults are trained to improve their senses, this book will be of interest to disciplines including anthropology and sociology as well as food studies and sensory studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Physical description

xx, 183 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Contents

Cultivation -- Noticing -- Learning from others -- How to percuss -- Fieldwork this book draws on -- What this book does not address -- Summary of chapters -- Lesson 1 How to make a cyanometer and other lessons in blue -- 1 -- 10. Alice blue to duck egg blue -- 11 -- 20. Periwinkle to azure -- 21 -- 30. Prussian blue to Egyptian blue -- 31 -- 40. Dark cyan to 7.5B 1/2 -- 1. New vocabularies -- New words -- Objectivity machines -- Reference sets -- Metaphors -- Knowing differently -- Lesson 2 How to teach medicine, with food -- Eggs -- Grapes -- Tropical fruits -- Oranges -- Pear drops -- 2. Sensory school -- Set-ups -- Calibration -- Creativity and improvisation -- Lesson 3 How to knit a uterus -- Equipment -- Instructions -- 3. Sensory instructions -- Instructional media -- The sound of recipes -- Designing expressive instructions -- Sensory alignment -- Lesson 4 Sensory food gatherings -- Fried fish sandwich -- Sahlep -- 4. Workshopping -- A cooking class -- Attention workshops for medical students -- Hands-on learning -- Skillshare -- Lesson 5 Make your own lesson -- 5. Repackaging sensations -- Sensory marketing -- Old tastes, new tastes -- Selling slowly -- Dining differently -- Lesson 6 Observation exercises -- Equipment -- Instructions -- 6. Engineering noticing -- Sensing and sensors -- Design of our landscape -- Bare feet and forest bathing -- Something sensible by way of a conclusion -- A final note on instructions.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    BF233 2021H31s
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781350056121
  • 135005612X