Making Sense of the Senses

10.1142/12527 ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Wibble
Keyword(s):  
Making Sense ◽  
The Senses

Introduction: Making Sense of the Senses

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Alice E. Sanger ◽  
Siv Tove Kulbrandstad Walker
Keyword(s):  
Making Sense ◽  
The Senses

Multisensory Anthropology

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Howes
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Multispecies Ethnography ◽  
Sensory Ethnography ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Senses

The senses are made, not given. Multisensory anthropology focuses on the variable boundaries, differential elaboration, and many different ways of combining the senses across (and within) cultures. Its methodology is grounded in “participant sensation,” or sensing—and making sense—along with others, also known as sensory ethnography. This review article traces the sensualization of anthropological theory and practice since the early 1990s, showing how the concept of sensory mediation has steadily supplanted the prior concern with representation. It concludes with a discussion of how the senses are engaged in filmmaking, multispecies ethnography, and material culture studies as well as in achieving social justice.

Walking, Talking, and Tasting with Winegrowers in Central Ohio and Eastern France: Sensorial Approaches to Making Sense of Climate Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Mark Anthony Arceño
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Landscape Change ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Change Acceptance ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Global Discourse ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Novel Concept

Abstract Drawing on eighteen months of fieldwork throughout central Ohio, USA, and Alsace, eastern France, I reflect on the importance of relying on more than just my eyes when collecting data. I illustrate examples of how I have felt, heard, smelled, tasted, and now talk about the changes that winegrowers identify in their vineyards, wine cellars, and tasting rooms. Underlying my analysis is a range of winegrowers’ sensibilities when it comes to their attributions of landscape change, acceptance of climate variability, and acknowledgment of anthropogenic climate change. I affirm that it is necessary to look beyond what we observe, as we interpret the collective stories of winegrowers, which are rooted not only in global discourse of climate change but other realities of legislative and economic change. An attunement to the senses, though not in itself a novel concept, remains vital to crafting a holistic picture of which and how livelihoods are changing.

Making Sense of the Senses

2002 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian L. Keeley ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Making Sense ◽  
The Senses

Making Sense of the Senses

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-185
Author(s):  
Alan J. McComas
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cortex ◽  
Primary Visual Cortex ◽  
Single Cells ◽  
Sensory System ◽  
Sensory Systems ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One

This chapter describes the novel findings of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel when recording from single cells in the primary visual cortex and how these findings supported the concept that the various features of the observed image underwent independent processing in parallel. Of the various sensory systems, the one about which most is known is the visual one. Vision is also the most complex sensory system, which is reflected in its large cortical territory. The chapter thus focuses on the sense of sight in particular as it explores the findings of Hubel and Wiesel. However, the chapter also presents an alternative to the now-classic Hubel–Wiesel scheme, one that, despite its fundamental differences, seems equally plausible.

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