The Varieties of Sensory Experience: A Sourcebook in the Anthropology of the Senses by David Howes

The Varieties of Sensory Experience: A Sourcebook in the Anthropology of the Senses

David Howes

336 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

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Western societies are overwhelmingly dependent on visual and verbal faculties for their experience of the world. But different societies use and combine the senses in different ways and to different ends. What is the world like to a culture that t...

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