(Ebook) Exploring the Senses South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity 1st Edition by Axel Michaels, Christoph Wulf ISBN 0415711061 9780415711067

(Ebook) Exploring the Senses South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity 1st Edition by Axel Michaels, Christoph Wulf ISBN 0415711061 9780415711067

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ISBN 10: 0415711061 
ISBN 13: 9780415711067
Author: Axel Michaels, Christoph Wulf

This fascinating volume offers a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach to understanding the senses by exploring themes in anthropologies of sound, sight, smell, taste, touch, and movement as expressed through aesthetic, perceptual, religious, and spiritual experiences. In drawing upon comparative perspectives from Indian and Western theories, the essays demonstrate the integral relation of senses with each other as well as with allied notions of the body, emotion and cultural memory. Stressing the continued relevance of senses as they manifest in a globalized world under the influence of new media, this work will interest scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, ritual studies, psychology, religion, philosophy, and history.

(Ebook) Exploring the Senses South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity 1st Table of contents:

1 The Windows on the World: The Senses and Inner Life
References
2 Sensory Perception and Notions of the Senses in Sāṃkhya Philosophy
Senses as “constituents of being(s)”
Interpretation of sensory perception
Ascetic and aesthetic modes of perception
References
3 Senses, Human and Divine
Human and divine senses and sense-perception according to epistemic systems
Divine senses and sensuality in religious texts
Icons and senses
Conclusion
References
Sanskrit and Tamil texts
Secondary sources
4 The Divine Embrace: The Role of the Senses in Puṣṭimārga
References
Sanskrit texts
Secondary sources
5 Managing the Senses in Sant Devotion
References
The Anthropology of Senses
6 The Vision: Control, Desire, Perception
Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Power and control
Wish and desire
Perception and thought
Aisthesis and the hypertrophy of vision
References
7 Seeing Ghosts in India and Europe
Ghosts and the “ontological question”
“Seeing” ghosts in Europe
“Sensing” ghosts in India
Ghosts in the field
Embodied ghosts
Conclusion
References
8 Sonic Perception and Acoustic Communication in Hindu India
A phonocentric life-world
Orality and sonality, and the need of extended hermeneutics
The language cow and her transformations
Persistence and fluidity: Sound as a medium of cultural reproduction
Holy hearing and acoustic piety
The language goddess and her alphabet rites
Mantra power
Linguistics and metaphysics
Conclusion
References
9 “Noise” or “Silence?” Listening to Sacred Sound in 20th-century Europe
Between “dense silence” and ear-deafening noise
Soundscapes of human–divine encounter in Serres and Schafer
The unheard complexity of sacred sounds
“For the brief space of two minutes”: A short (history of) silence
“Sounds of silence”: The fragility of a modern hi-fi soundscape
Mute (E-)motions
“There will be service enough”: Re-enchantment or anachronism?
Conclusion
References
10 The Sonic Persona: An Anthropology of Sound
Introduction: Bodies in sound
Performing the Sonic: Sound practices in auditory dispositives
The Sonic Persona: An anthropology of sound
Narrating the sensory: Sensory fictions about sensorial techniques
Conclusion: The corporeality and relationality of sound
References
11 Taste as an Aesthetic Sense
References
12 Scent of a Flower: Notes on Olfaction in Hindu Worship
Consuming flowers
Effects of smelling
Purification
Bewildering the senses
Smell and breath
Flowers beyond smell, smell beyond flowers
Conclusion
References
Sanskrit texts
Secondary literature
13 Untouchability and Tactility in Hindu Death Rituals
Touching and pollution
Touching the corpse
Touching the deceased
Conclusion
Appendix 13 13 I gratefully acknowledge the help of Noutan Sharma in translating the text.On the Observation of the Mourning (āsauca vārnyāko) in the Mulukī Ain of 1854, Ch. 97
References
Texts
Secondary literature
14 Senses of Movement: Kinesthetics and Synesthetics in Contemporary Dance Practices
Listening
Contact improvisation and kinesthesis
Attention: Kinesthetic awareness
Sensing the movement: “Small dance”
References
15 Memory, Experience and Imagination in Performance
Mapping human resonances
Spatialization of memory, experience and imagination: Understanding time and place making in the Indian context
Indian iconography and architecture
Treatment of landscape in Tamil poetry
Conceptualizing space in a Kalarippayattu pit
In search of an evolving performative self and body in contemporary India
The “extra daily” body
Manifestations of the body in life situations
The empirical body and its architecture
The “symbolic” body
Ideas of the Body in traditional Indian physical practices
Enhancing kinaesthesia and proprioception
Improvisation and structuring of emergent bodies and movements
Performance as pattern making and synaesthesia
The role of empathy in the meaning making process
Objects as metaphors in performance, and making of places through layering of meaning
Ideas of individual, universe and technology as coordinates of transient spaces in performance
Conclusion
References
16 Family Constellation Therapy: Body Memory and the Sense of Space
Family constellation: Origins and process
An example of a family constellation process
Body memory
Structures of human memory
Processes of the body memory
Implication and explication
Similarity, transposition and mimesis
The process of family constellation: explicating family dynamics from body memory
The client's original constellation: externalization
Sensations of representatives and repositioning: The unfolding of family dynamics
Explication and time
Process work: Resolving and performing family dynamics
Conclusion
References
17 Performative Ritual as Sensual Experience of Body, Place and Sociality
References
The Unity of Senses
18 Unity of the Senses in Indian Thought
Nature of sense organs in Indian philosophies
The higher unity: Body and mind
On touch as moral sense
References
19 The Politics of the Senses: On Vision and Hearing in Hannah Arendt's “Vita Activa”
Exploring the public sphere: Light, vision and immortality
Visiting the private sphere: Body and darkness
Labor: Body and authority
References
20 The Sky Around Our Bodies: Climate and Atmospheric Perception
Meteorology or the sky on the earth
Sky, clouds, mist, smog: Descending the ladder
Aristotle
Goethe
Cioran
Atmosphere(s)
Climate and weather
Atmospheres, “half-things,” and qualities
Meteorological and aerial aesthetics?
From weather-makers to climate-makers and 

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