Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Anthropology of Senses
Course Code
KSK_056
Branch of Science
Social Anthropology; Sociology and social work
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Psychology; Sociology
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Klāvs Sedlenieks
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
This course will examine ‘the perceptual’ as a social, political, and cultural phenomenon, which is continually undergoing transformations throughout history. From this perspective, the course will consider how perception is experienced and, not only shapes the relations between persons, but also structures the way we encounter and perceive the world.
Preliminary Knowledge
Prerequisites in anthropology.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.The course will be organized around specific themes that will be addressed throughout various sessions. The format of the sessions will be akin to a Seminar or Reading Group. A student, or group of students, will commit themselves to doing an oral presentation on the assigned readings for the session. This presentation will be followed by a group discussion of the themes brought up during the oral report.
Skills
1.Will recognize the sensory problem in anthropology. Will be able to discuss the sensory problems of anthropology in the context of current social events.
Competences
1.Will be able to evaluate current trends and challenges in the anthropology of the senses, sensory anthropology.
Assessment
Individual work
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Students will be assessed on the basis of oral presentations and one written essay. Essays should be between 3,500 and 5,000 words. It is necessary to use at least 5 cited references in the work. For the purposes of the essay, students are encouraged to find and use academic resources other than those listed in the course outline.
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The student is fluent in recognising and discussing the current trends, theories and challenges in the Anthropology of Senses.
Exam - 50%; independent work - 50%.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
24 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Visa literatūra ir angļu valodā un piemērota gan latviešu, gan angļu plūsmas studentiem
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Howes, David. 2003. Chapter 1. Taking Leave of Our Senses: A Survey of the Senses and Critique of the Textual Revolution in Ethnographic Theory. In Sensual relations: engaging the senses in culture and social theory, pgs 3 – 28.
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Cazeaux, Clive, 2002. Metaphor and the Categorization of the Senses, Metaphor and Symbol, 17:1, pgs.3-26
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Stoller, Paul and Olkes, Sheryl. Chapter 1: The Taste of Ethnographic Things, Paul Stoller. 1989. In the Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, pgs. 15 – 36.
5.
Corbin, Alain. 2005. Chapter 7: Charting the Cultural History of the Senses”. Howes, David (editor). In Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader. Berg Publishers. Oxford.
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Cox, Rupert. "Senses, anthropology of." The International encyclopedia of anthropology 10 (2018): 5411-5422.
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Omrani, Arjang. "Sensing anthropology: A critical review of the sensorial turn in anthropology." Mediterranean Journal of Social & Behavioral Research 7, no. 3 (2023): 127-133.
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Bajič, Blaž. "Anthropology of the senses/sensory anthropology: Pre-theoretical commitments and their consequences." In Sensory Transformations, pp. 49-67. Routledge, 2023.
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Erlmann, Veit. "But what of the ethnographic ear? Anthropology, sound, and the senses." In Hearing Cultures, pp. 1-20. Routledge, 2020.
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Howes, David. "Multisensory anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology 48 (2019): 17-28.
11.
Howes, David, Clifford Geertz, and Roseline Lambert. "Boasian Soundings: An Interrupted History of the Senses (and Poetry) in Anthropology." Amerikastudien/American Studies (2018): 473-487
Additional Reading
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Connor, Steven. 2006. “The Menangerie of the Senses“. The Senses and Society. Vol. 1 (1) Berg Publishers. London.
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Sacks, Oliver. 2005. “The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See”. In Howes, David (editor). Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader. Berg Publishers. Oxford.
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Taussig, Michael. 1993. “Physiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds”. In Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses. Routledge. New York.
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Le Breton, David. Sensing the world: An anthropology of the senses. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.
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Howes, David, and Constance Classen. Ways of sensing: Understanding the senses in society. Routledge, 2013.
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Howes, David. Sensorial investigations: A history of the senses in anthropology, psychology, and law. Penn State Press, 2023.
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Howes, David. 2006. “Hearing Scents, Tasting Sights: Toward a Cross-Cultural Multi-Modal Theory of Aesthetics“. Art & the Senses Conference. Oxford 27-29 October 2006.
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Stewart, Susan. 2005. “Remembering the Senses”. Howes, David (editor). In Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader. Berg Publishers. Oxford.