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 2011

An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body
By Hans Belting
Princeton University Press

The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature
by Deborah A. Green
Penn State University Press

Art and the Senses
Edited by Francesca Bacci and David Melcher
Oxford University Press

The City of the Senses: Urban Culture and Urban Space
by Kimberly DeFazio
Palgrave Macmillan

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment
Edited by Frances E. Mascia-Lees
Wiley-Blackwell

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Bodies, Therapies, Senses
by Ruth Barcan
Routledge

Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred
by David L. Martin
The MIT Press

The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
by Juhani Pallasmaa
John Wiley & Sons

The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England
by Holly Dugan
The Johns Hopkins University Press

The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World
by Daniel Heller-Roazen
Zone Books

The Handbook of Visual Culture
Edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell
Bloomsbury

Made to Be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology
Edited by Marcus Banks and Jay Ruby
University of Chicago Press

Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond
by Hillel Schwartz
Zone Books

Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretations
Edited by Sandra Dudley
Routledge

Noise of the Past: Sensing the Post-Colonial
edited by Nirmal Puwar and Sanjay Sharma
A Special Issue of The Senses and Society 6(3)
Taylor & Francis

Redrawing Anthropology: Materials, Movements, Lines
Edited by Tim Ingold
Routledge

The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality
by Nicholas Mirzoeff
Duke University Press

Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses
by Laurie Garrison
Palgrave MacMillan

See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception
by Madeline Schwartzman
Black Dog Publishing

The Sense of Sound
edited by Rey Chow and James Steintrager
A special issue of Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 22 (2/3)
Duke University Press

The Senses: Classical and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives
edited by Fiona Macpherson
Oxford University Press

The Senses and the English Reformation
by Matthew Milner
Routledge

Senses of Belonging: The Synaesthetics of Citizenship in American Literature, 1862 – 1903
by Erica Fretwell
Duke University Press

Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener
by David Toop
Bloomsbury

Slavery and the Culture of Taste
by Simon Gikandi
Princeton University Press

Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age (Studies in Sensory History Series)
by Greg Goodale
University of Illinois Press

The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity
Edited by Paul L. Gavrilyuk and Sarah Coakley
Cambridge University Press

Theatre Noise: The Sound of Performance
Edited by Lynne Kendrick and David Roesner
Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-Garde
by Susan Best
I.B. Tauris