Empire of the senses : the sensual culture reader / edited by David Howes.

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005.

x, 421 pages ; 24 cm.

Introduction -- The mind's eye : what the blind see / Oliver Sacks -- Inside the five-sense sensorium / Marshall McLuhan -- Remembering the senses / Susan Stewart -- The witch's senses : sensory ideologies and transgressive femininities from the Renaissance to modernity / Constance Classen -- The senses divided : organs, objects, and media in early modern England / Carla Mazzio -- The death of the sensuous chemist : the 'new' chemistry and the transformation of sensuous technology / Lissa Roberts -- Charting the cultural history of the senses / Alain Corbin -- Mcluhan in the rainforest : the sensory worlds of oral cultures / Constance Classen -- Consciousness as 'feeling in the body' : a West African theory of embodiment, emotion, and the making of mind / Kathryn Linn Guerts -- Places senses, senses placed : toward a sensuous epistemology of environments / Steven Feld -- The tea ceremony : a symbolic analysis / Dorinne Kondo -- Engaging the spirits of modernity : temiar songs of a changing world / Marina Roseman -- Home cooking : Filipino women and geographies of the senses in Hong Kong / Lisa Law -- A tonic of wildness : sensuousness in Henry David Thoreau / Victor Carl Friesen -- Volatile effects : olfactory dimensions of art and architecture / Jim Drobnick -- Hyperesthesia, or, The sensual logic of late capitalism / David Howes -- Under the jaguar sun / Italo Calvino -- Michel Serres' five senses / Steven Connor -- Darwin's disgust / William Ian Miller -- Strindberg's 'deranged sensations' / Hans-Göran Ekman -- Movement, stillness : on the sensory world of a shelter for the 'homeless mentally ill' / Robert Desjarlais -- Dystoposthesia : emplacing environmental sensitivities / Christopher Fletcher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.