Sensory history

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Meaning history (also Sensory Studies ) is a historiographical research that the history of sensory perception examined the man. It is also the collective term for the respective fields of research on the history of seeing , hearing , feeling , smelling and tasting .

The history of the senses also includes the history of the evolution of the senses, which have formed in evolution and are therefore always materialized history (see material turn ) of the (not only human) senses.

literature

  • Gisela Engel, Gisela Notz, (Ed.): Lust and change of heart: On the history of sensuality. trafo verlag: Berlin 2001, (= contributions to legal, social and cultural criticism, volume 1), ISBN 3-89626-291-2 , table of contents
  • Diane Ackerman : A Natural History of the Senses Random House, New York 1990 ISBN 9780307763310
    • German: The beautiful power of the senses: a cultural history '. Translated by Antoinette Gittinger, Kindler-Verlag: Munich 1991, ISBN 3-463-40167-3 .
  • Jerry Toner (Ed.): A Cultural History of the Senses. In Antiquity (= A Cultural History of the Senses 1). London: Bloomsbury Publisher 2014. ISBN 978-0-8578-5339-4 ; contents
  • Richard Newhauser (Ed.): A Cultural History of the Senses. In the Middle Ages (= A Cultural History of the Senses 2). London: Bloomsbury Publisher 2014. ISBN 978-0-8578-5340-0 ; contents
  • Herman Roodenburg (Ed.): A Cultural History of the Senses. In the Renaissance (= A Cultural History of the Senses 3). London: Bloomsbury Publisher 2014. ISBN 978-0-8578-5341-7 ; contents
  • Anne Vila (Ed.): A Cultural History of the Senses. In the Age of Enlightenment (= A Cultural History of the Senses 4). London: Bloomsbury Publisher 2014. ISBN 978-0-8578-5342-4 ; contents
  • Constance Classen (Ed.): A Cultural History of the Senses. In the Age of Empire (= A Cultural History of the Senses 5). London: Bloomsbury Publisher 2014. ISBN 978-0-8578-5343-1 ; contents
  • David Howes (Ed.): A Cultural History of the Senses. In the Modern Age (= A Cultural History of the Senses 6). London: Bloomsbury Publisher 2015. ISBN 978-0-8578-5344-8 ; contents
  • Daniel Morat: Senses, in: Anne Kwaschik / Mario Wimmer (ed.), From the work of the historian. A dictionary on the theory and practice of historical science, Bielefeld 2010, pp. 183–186.
  • Mark M. Smith: Sensing the Past. Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History . Berkeley 2007

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