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 2013

Affect, Embodiment and Sense Perception
by Jesse Davie-Kessler, Bascom Guffin, and Richard McGrail
Cultural Anthropology

Beyond Environmental Comfort
Edited by Boon Lay Ong
Routledge

Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
by Amy F. Ogata
University of Minnesota Press

Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture
By Phil Ford
Oxford University Press

Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitudes in the Arts
by Douglas Kahn
University of California Press

The Ethics of Visuality: Levinas and the Contemporary Gaze
by Hagi Kenaan
I.B. Taurus Publishers

Eye hEar The Visual in Music
by Simon Shaw-Miller
University of Bristol, UK

The First Sense: A Philosophical Study of Human Touch
by Matthew Fulkerson
The MIT Press

Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology
Edited by Fiona Macpherson and Dimitris Platchias
MIT Press

The Hand: an Organ of the Mind: What the Manual Tells the Mental
by Zdravko Radman
MIT Press

Haptic Modernism: Touch and the Tactile in Modernist Writing
by Abbie Garrington
Edinburgh University Press

Hearing and the Hospital: Sound, Listening, Knowledge and Experience
By Tom Rice
Sean Kingston Publishing

Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity
by Davide Panagia
Rowman and Littlefield

Jean-Luc Nancy: Senses, the Senses, and the World
edited by Michael Syrotinski
The Senses and Society 8(1)
Routledge

Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age
by Kate Lacey
Polity Books

Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology
edited by Jo Day
Southern Illinois University Press

Music, Sound and the Laboratory from 1750-1980
Osiris, Volume 28
edited by Alexandra Hui, Julia Kursell, and Myles W. Jackson
University of Chicago Press

Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening
by David Hendy
Profile Books
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Perception and Cognition in Language and Culture
edited by Alexandra Aikhenvald and Anne Storch
Brill

Qualia, Anthropological Theory 13(1-2)
Edited by Nicholas Harkness and Lilly Hope Chumley
Sage

Radio in the Digital Age
by Andrew Dubber
Polity Books

Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism
by Isaac Weiner
New York University Press

Sense and Stigma in the Gospels: Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters
by Louise J. Lawrence
Oxford University Press

The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity 
by Rachel Neis
Cambridge University Press

Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life
by Susanna Trnka, Christine Dureau and Julie Park
Routledge

Sensuous Cognition: Explorations into Human Sentience: Imagination, (E)motion and Perception
Edited by Rosario Caballero and Javier E. Díaz Vera
De Gruyter Mouton

Shakespearean Sensations: Experiencing Literature in Early Modern England
Edited by Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard
Cambridge University Press

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
by Sam Halliday
Edinburgh University Press

Sound Studies
Edited by Michael Bull
Routledge

Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses
by Shane Butler and Alex Purves
Routledge

Technology and Touch:The Biopolitics of Emerging Technologies
by Anne Cranny-Francis
Palgrave Macmillan

Tolerance: A Sensorial Orientation to Politics
By Lars Tønder
Oxford University Press

Ubiquitous Musics: The Everyday Sounds That We Don’t Always Notice
by Marta García Quiñones, Anahid Kassabian and Elena Boschi
Ashgate Publishing

The Varieties of Magical Experience: Indigenous, Medieval and Modern Magic
by Lynne Hume and Nevill Drury
Praeger

Visual Research: A Concise Introduction to Thinking Visually
by Jonathan S. Marion and Jerome W. Crowder
Routledge