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  • Worlds of Sense
    Constance Classen
    First published in 1993, Worlds of Sense is an exploration of the historical and cultural formation of the senses. ...
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    169,58 €

  • A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire
    Constance Classen
    The 19th century was a time of new sensory experiences and modes of perception. The raucous mechanical intensity of the train and the factory vied for attention with the dazzling splendour of department stores and world fairs. Colonization and trade carried European sensations and sensibilities to the world and, in turn, flooded the West with exotic sights and savours. Urban st...
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    52,19 €

  • The Museum of the Senses
    Constance Classen
    Traditionally sight has been the only sense with a ticket to enter the museum. The same is true of histories of art, in which artworks are often presented as purely visual objects. In The Museum of the Senses Constance Classen offers a new way of approaching the history of art through the senses, revealing how people used to handle, smell and even taste collection pieces. Topic...
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    47,47 €

  • The Museum of the Senses
    Constance Classen
    Traditionally sight has been the only sense with a ticket to enter the museum. The same is true of histories of art, in which artworks are often presented as purely visual objects. In The Museum of the Senses Constance Classen offers a new way of approaching the history of art through the senses, revealing how people used to handle, smell and even taste collection pieces. Topic...
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    154,61 €

  • Ways of Sensing
    Constance Classen / David Howes
    A stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. ...
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    268,22 €

  • Ways of Sensing
    Constance Classen / David Howes
    A stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. ...
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    85,61 €

  • The Book of Touch
    Constance Classen
    This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity, and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familia...
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    266,96 €

  • The Book of Touch
    Constance Classen
    This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity, and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familia...
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    72,17 €

  • The Colour of Angels
    Constance Classen
    Compellingly demonstrates the relationship between sensory and gender orders, highlighting the gender politics behind such sensory constructs as the male gaze and the female touch. ...
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    268,05 €

  • The Colour of Angels
    Constance Classen
    Compellingly demonstrates the relationship between sensory and gender orders, highlighting the gender politics behind such sensory constructs as the male gaze and the female touch. ...
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    94,90 €

  • Aroma
    Anthony Synnott / Constance Classen / David Howes
    This text argues that smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. It attempts to break the 'olfactory silence' of modernity by offering an exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history and in a wide variety of non-Western societies. ...
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    342,54 €

  • Aroma
    Anthony Synnott / Constance Classen / David Howes
    This text argues that smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. It attempts to break the 'olfactory silence' of modernity by offering an exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history and in a wide variety of non-Western societies. ...
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    97,71 €