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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 March 2023
      09 March 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009240826
      9781009240833
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009240826
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 224 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociology: General Interest, Anthropology, Sociology
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    From constructions of rasa (taste) in pre-colonial India and Indonesia, children and sensory discipline within the monastic orders of the Edo period of Japan, to sound expressives among the Semai in Peninsular Malaysia, the sensory soteriology of Tibetan Buddhism, and sensory warscapes of WWII, this book analyses how sensory cultures in Asia frame social order and disorder. Illustrated with a wide range of fascinating examples, it explores key anthropological themes, such as culture and language, food and foodways, morality, transnationalism and violence, and provides granular analyses on sensory relations, sensory pairings, and intersensoriality. By offering rich ethnographic perspectives on inter- and intra-regional sense relations, the book engages with a variety of sensory models, and moves beyond narrower sensory regimes bounded by group, nation or temporality. A pioneering exploration of the senses in and out of Asia, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in social and cultural anthropology.

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