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were widely popular during the early modern period based on the number of known reprints …

In the last few decades, promising new approaches to the study of the senses and to the
body have shed new light on how people in the past experienced their lives, as much as on …

Speaking and writing about the human hand is also speaking and writing about
anthropology; even more so if one focuses on the 'speaking hand,'because, for one, the …

These six essays take us inside the “thingness” of early mod-ern anatomy. Each author
focuses on a particular object, or type of object, as a hook into a history of material and …

Purves' volume provides a powerful corrective to sight as the preeminent sense in classical
scholarship. as each essay demonstrates, touch blurs the boundaries between subjective …

In this essay I outline the wide range of ways that human beings have used body parts in the
past, primarily within Anglo-American cultural frameworks and experiences. I concentrate on …

How do we perceive the world around us? The answer depends very much on which senses
we use and how we use them. The world sensed through vision or sound is not the world …

'In his latest book, Tim Ingold persuasively argues for anthropology's transformational
capacity and promotes serious reflection on the need for anthropologists to correspond with …

Book synopsis: Since the Renaissance, at least, the medium of sculpture has been
associated explicitly with the sense of touch. Sculptors, philosophers and art historians have …

This study seeks to examine how the human body, particularly the hands, can be a focal
point for sociologically understanding the way humans perceive themselves, each other …