Sensory studies arises at the conjuncture (and within) the fields of anthropology • sociology • history • archeology • geography • communications • religion • philosophy • literature • art history • museology • film • mixed media • performance • phenomenology • disability • aesthetics • architecture • urbanism • design

Sensory Studies can also be divided along sensory lines into, for example, visual culture, auditory culture (or sound studies), smell culture, taste culture and the culture of touch, not to mention the sixth sense (however it might be defined)

Research Profile >> Nélia Dias

Nélia Dias is the author of two books, Le Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro 1878-1908. Anthropologie et Muséologie en France (Paris, CNRS, 1991); La Mesure des sens. Les anthropologies et le corps humain au XIXe siècle (Paris, Aubier, 2004) and of several essays dedicated to the history of French anthropology, to ethnographic museums in France (namely the Musée du quai Branly) and to sensory experiments on colonial subjects. Her current research is focused on circulation of fluids (blood and water), people (railroads and museums) and germs in nineteenth-century France.

E-mail: nelia.dias@iscte.pt