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 2009

Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion and the Senses
edited by Birgit Meyer
Palgrave-Macmillan

Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
by Stefan Helmreich
University of California Press

In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art
By Seth Kim-Cohen
Bloomsbury

Doing Sensory Ethnography
by Sarah Pink
Sage

Literature and Sensation
Edited by Anthony Uhlmann, Helen Groth, Paul Sheehan, and Stephen McLaren
Cambridge Scholars Publishing

OASE 78 Immersed. Sound and Architecture
A special issue of OASE Journal for Architecture
Edited by Pnina Avidar, Raviv Ganchrow  and Julia Kursell
NAi Publishers

The Political Life of Sensation
by Davide Panagia
Duke University Press

Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
by Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright
Oxford University Press

Re-mediating Touch
edited by Mark Paterson
Special Issue of The Senses and Society 4(2)
Berg

Scents and Scent-sibilities: Smell and Everyday Life Experiences
by Kelvin E.Y. Low
Cambridge Scholars

Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
by David Suisman
Harvard University Press

Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
by Joy Parr
University of British Columbia Press

The Sixth Sense Reader (Sensory Formations series)
Edited by David Howes
Routledge

Sounding New Media. Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture
by Frances Dyson
University of California Press.

The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience
by Jennifer M. Barker,
University of California Press

Uncertain Tastes: Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu Northern Kenya
by Jon Holtzman
University of California Press

Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
by Richard E. Cytowic and David M. Eagleman
MIT Press

What Color is the Sacred? 
by Michael Taussig
University of Chicago Press