Books of Note 2024
Acoustemology: Four Lectures
By Steven Feld
VoxLox
*Open Access
Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media, and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
Oxford University Press
The Aesthetics of Tinnitus: The Senses and Society 19(1) special issue
Edited by Marie Thompson
Routledge
Air Conditioning
By Hsuan L. Hsu
Bloomsbury
*Discount at the publisher’s website
*excerpt and interview with the New Books Network
The Alpine Enlightenment: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium
By Kathleen Kete
The University of Chicago Press
The Anthropology of Smell
By Mojca Ramšak
Springer
Approaches sensible de l’espace. Regards croisés, anthropologie et égyptologie
Edited by Valentine Marlot, Quentin Cécillon and Misha Schroetter
Open Edition Journals
*Open Access
At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism
By Polina Dimova
Penn State University Press
Beyond the Park: An Anthology of Ecological Experiences
Edited by Angel Mota
Laberinto Press
Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India
By Andrew McDowell
Stanford University Press
Connecting Visual Literacy to Theory: Revisiting the Disruptions of Visual Thinkers in Education and Beyond
Edited by Ricardo Lopez-Leon and Dana Statton Thompson
Routledge
Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective
Edited by Magdalena Banaszkiewicz, Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła
Routledge
*Partial Open Access
Digital Touch
By Carey Jewitt and Sara Price
Polity
Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives
By Tanya E. Clement
MIT Press
The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies
Edited by Helen Groth and Julian Murphet
Edinburgh University Press
Engaging Ambience: Visual and Multisensory Methodologies and Rhetorical Theory
By Brian McNely
Utah State University Press
Experiencing Sound: The Sensation of Being
By Lawrence Kramer
University of California Press
The Explorations of Edward Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down
By Richard Cavell
McGill-Queen’s University Press
The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media
By Sandra Annett
University of Minnesota Press
Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds
By Alex K. Gearin
Stanford University Press
How to Work with Space: Spatial Knowledge in Organizations and Research Practice
By Karen Messer
Palgrave Macmillan
Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age
By Simeon Koole
University of Chicago Press
Islamic Sensory History, vol. 2: 600-1500
Edited by Christian Lange and Adam Bursi
Brill
*Open Access
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By Zoë Schlanger
Harper Collins
Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception
By Peter Antich
Routledge
The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan: A Critical Reading of Smelling, Breathing, and Subjectivity
By Berjanet Jazani
Routledge
The Routledge Companion to the Sound of Space
Edited by Emma-Kate Matthews, Jane Burry and Mark Burry
Routledge
*Partial Open Access
Senses of Architecture: Using the Senses to Enhance Architectural Experience
By Ryan Crooks
BIS Publishers
Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
Edited by Blanka Misic and Abigail Graham
Cambridge University Press
Open Access
The Senses in Religious Communities, 1600-1800: Early Modern ‘Convents of Pleasure’
By Nicky Hallett
Routledge
Sensing Health: Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies
By Mikki Kressbach
University of Michigan Press
Open Access
Sensorium: Contextualizing the Senses and Cognition in History and Across Cultures
By David Howes
Cambridge University Press
Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control
Edited by Kate Herrity, Bethany E. Schmidt, and Jason Warr
Emerald
Sensory Probes: Essays and exercises for teachers to cultivate artistic attitudes in the classroom
By The SenseSquared collective (edited by Anna Harris)
Free PDF download
Sensory Tourism: Senses and SenseScapes Encompassing Tourism Destinations
Edited by Ian Jenkins and Robert Bristow
CABI
Sensory Warfare in the Global Cold War: Partition, Propaganda, Covert Operations
Edited by Bodo Mrozek
Pennsylvania State University Press
Skateboarding and the Senses: Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces
By Sander Hölsgens and Brian Glenney
Routledge
*Open Access
Sonic Pasts: Acoustical Heritage and Historical Soundscapes
By Mariana J López
Focal Press
Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast
By Andrew J. Eisenberg
Wesleyan University Press
Stepping in the Madang: Sustaining Expressive Ecologies of Korean Drumming and Dance
By Donna Lee Kwon
Wesleyan University Press
Stinking Philosophy! Smell Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness
By Benjamin Young
MIT Press
Tangible Territory Journal Issue #7
Edited by Tereza Stehlikova
Touch in Digitalized Worlds: special issue of Anthropology of Consciousness
Edited by Tuva Beyer Boch and Saiba Varma
Wiley
Translation and Contemporary Art: Transdisciplinary Encounters
Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte
Routledge
Translation and Objects: Rewriting Migrancy and Displacement through the Materiality of Art
By Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte
Routledge
*Partial Open Access
The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
By Lavinia Greenlaw
Faber
A Veil of Silence: Women and Sound in Renaissance Italy
By Julie Rombough
Harvard University Press
Vision Impairment: Science, art and lived experience
By Michael Crossland
UCL Press
*Open Access