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 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