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)

Books of Note 2008

Biopolitics of the Senses: Touch, Sound and Embodied Being
Edited by Anne Cranny-Francis
Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture, 5(3)

Cinema and the Senses
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Edinburgh University Press

Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses
by Wiliam A. Cohen
University of Minnesota Press

Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses
by Caroline A. Jones,
University of Chicago Press

The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
by Michel Serres,
Continuum

The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture
by Bruce R. Smith
University of Chicago Press

Looking and Listening in Nineteenth Century France
by Martha Ward and Anne Leonard
University of Chicago Press

Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century
by Karin Bijsterveld
The MIT Press

The Power of Touch: Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Context
edited by Elizabeth Pye
Routledge

Rethinking the Medieval Senses: Heritage, Fascinations, Frames
edited by Stephen G. Nichols, Andeas Kablitz and Alison Calhoun
The Johns Hopkins University Press

Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester
by Mónica Montserrat Degen
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group

Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Touching and Tasting in History
by Mark M. Smith
University of California Press

The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir
by Amy B. Trubek
University of California Press

Touch in Museums: Policy and Practice in Object Handling
by Helen Chatterjee
Routledge

Wind, Life, Health: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
Edited by Elisabeth Hsu and Chris Low
Blackwell Publishing/Royal Anthropological Institute

Vibratory Movements
Edited by Shelley Trower
The Senses and Society, 3(2)
Berg

Visual Sense: A Cultural Reader (Sensory Formations series)
edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Kaushik Bhaumik
Routledge