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 2014

Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect
by Yannis Hamilakis
Cambridge University Press

Auditory Archaeology: Understanding Sound and Hearing in the Past
by Steve Mills
Routledge

Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
By Pasi Väliaho
MIT Press

Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas
Edited and with an introduction by Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover
University of Nebraska Press

Comics and the Senses: A Multisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels
by Ian Hague
Routledge

Crafting Senses: Circulating the Knowledge and Experience of Taste 
A special issue of Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment
Edited by Yuson Jung and Nicolas Sternsdorff Cisterna
Routledge

A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity, 500 BCE-500 CE
Edited by Jerry Toner
Bloomsbury

A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages, 500-1450
Edited by Richard Newhauser
Bloomsbury

A Cultural History of the Senses in the Renaissance, 1450-1650
Edited by Herman Roodenburg
Bloomsbury

A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Enlightenment, 1650-1800
Edited by Anne C. Vila
Bloomsbury

A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire, 1800-1920
Edited by Constance Classen
Bloomsbury

A Cultural History of the Senses in the Modern Age, 1920-2000
Edited by David Howes
Bloomsbury

Empires of Vision: A Reader
Edited by Martin Jay, Sumathi Ramaswamy
Duke University Press

Exploring the Senses: South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity
Edited By Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf
Routledge

The Feel of the City: Experiences of Urban Transformation 
by Nicolas Kenny
University of Toronto Press

Feeling Pleasures: Sense of Touch in Renaissance England
Joe Moshenska
Oxford University Press

Galileo’s Visions: Piercing the Spheres of the Heavens by Eye and Mind
by Marco Piccolino and Nicholas J. Wade
Oxford University Press

A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses
by S. Brent Plate
Beacon Press

L’invention chrétienne des 5 sens dans la liturgie et l’art au Moyen Age
by Éric Palazzo
Les Éditions du Cerf

Legal Emblems and the Art of Law: Obiter Depicta as the Vision of Governance
by Peter Goodrich
Cambridge University Press

Making Sense of Visual Culture
Invisible Culture – An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, Issue 18
University of Rochester

The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory and Space
Edited by Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Opening the Black Box: The Work of Watching
by Gavin J.D. Smith
Routledge

Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell
by Jonathan Reinarz
University of Illinois Press

Perception and Its Modalities
Edited by Dustin Stokes, Mohan Matthen, and Stephen Biggs
Oxford University Press

The Perfect Meal: The Multisensory Science of Food and Dining
by Charles Spence and Betina Piqueras-Fiszman
Wiley Blackwell

The Proust Effect: The Senses as Doorways to Lost Memories
by Cretien van Campen
Oxford University Press

The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media, and the Sonic
by Eleni Ikoniadou
The MIT Press

Sculpture and Touch
by Peter Dent
Ashgate

Secrets from the Greek Kitchen: Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island
by David E. Sutton
University of California Press

Sensational Religion
Edited by Sally Promey
Yale University Press

Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness
Edited by David Bennett and Christopher Hill
MIT Press

Sensory Museology
A Special issue of The Senses and Society
Edited by David Howes
Taylor & Francis

Le sentiment de soi
by Georges Vigarello
Seuil

The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
by Mark M. Smith
Oxford University Press

Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel
by Karin Bijsterveld, Eefje Cleophas, Stefan Krebs, and Gijs Mom
Oxford University Press

Sound, Space and Sociality in Modern Japan
Edited by Joseph D. Hankins and Carolyn S. Stevens
Routledge

Ways of Sensing: Understanding the Senses In Society
by David Howes and Constance Classen
Routledge