Overview
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical, recent, and emerging scholarship and grounded in original empirical data that deepens the review and analysis. By bridging cultural/qualitative sociology and cultural/humanistic anthropology, The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture explicitly blurs boundaries that are particularly weak in this field due to the ethnographic scope of much research. Serving both the sociological and anthropological constituencies at once means bridging ethnographic traditions, cultural foci, and socioecological approaches to embodiment and sensuousness. The Senses in Self,Society, and Culture is intended to be a milestone in the social sciences’ somatic turn.
Full Product Details
Author: Phillip Vannini (Royal Roads University, Canada) ,
Dennis Waskul (Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA) ,
Simon Gottschalk (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.294kg
ISBN: 9780415731041
ISBN 10: 0415731046
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 10 October 2013
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Vannini (communication and culture, Royal Roads Univ., Canada), Waskul (sociology, Minnesota State Univ.), and Gottschalk (sociology, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas) have produced a marvelous slim book outlining a sociology of the senses...Richly and evocatively written, this book will interest interdisciplinary scholars concerned with the body and somatics, senses, and sensuality -CHOICE, J. L. Croissant, University of Arizona
Vannini (communication and culture, Royal Roads Univ., Canada), Waskul (sociology, Minnesota State Univ.), and Gottschalk (sociology, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas) have produced a marvelous slim book outlining a sociology of the senses....Richly and evocatively written, this book will interest interdisciplinary scholars concerned with the body and somatics, senses, and sensuality -CHOICE, J. L. Croissant, University of Arizona
Author Information
Phillip Vannini is Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada, and Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography. He is author and editor of eight books, including Understanding Society through Popular Music (with Joe Kotarba, 2006, Routledge), and Ferry Tales: An Ethnography of Mobilities, Place,and Time on Canada’s West Coast (2011, Routledge). Dennis Waskul is Professor of sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is author of Self-Games and Body-Play (2003, Peter Lang), production editor for Symbolic Interaction, editor of net.seXXX (2004, Peter Lang), and co-editor of Body/Embodiment (2006, Ashgate). He has published numerous studies on the sociology of the body, senses, sexualities, and computer-mediated communications. Simon Gottschalk is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He was editor of Symbolic Interaction (2003–2007), and is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on self-environment relations, postmodern culture, social psychology, qualitative research, the mass media, and interaction in virtual environments.
