David Howes is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory and a co-author of Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell.

General Introduction: Empires of the Senses Part I: The Prescience of the Senses 'Culture Tunes Our Neurons' 'The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See'--Oliver Sacks * 'Inside the Five Sense Sensorium'--Marshall McLuhan, formerly University of Toronto Part II. The Shifting Sensorium Historicizing Perception 'Remembering the Senses'--Susan Stewart, Princeton University * 'The Witch's Senses: Sensory Ideologies and Transgressive Femininities from the Renaissance to Modernity'--Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal * 'The Senses Divided: Organs, Objects, and Media in Early Modern England'--Carla Mazzio, University of Chicago * 'The Death of the Sensuous Chemist: The 'New' Chemistry and the Transformation of Sensuous Technology'--Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, Netherlands * 'Charting the Cultural History of the Senses'-- Alain Corbin, Universites de Paris Part III. Sensescapes Sensation in Cultural Context 'McLuhan in the Rainforest: The Sensory Worlds of Oral Cultures'--Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal * 'Consciousness as 'Feeling in the Body': A West African Theory of Embodiment, Emotion and the Making of Mind'--Kathryn Linn Geurts, Hamline University, Minnesota * 'Places Sensed, Senses Placed: Towards a Sensuous Epistemology of Space'--Steven Feld, University of New Mexico, Albequerque * 'The Tea Ceremony: A Symbolic Analysis'--Dorinne Kondo, University of Southern California * 'Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: Temiar Songs of a Changing World'--Marina Roseman, Indiana University * 'Home Cooking: Filipino Women and Geographies of the Senses in Hong Kong'--Lisa Law, University of St Andrews Part IV. The Aestheticization of Everyday Life Aestheticization Takes Command 'A Tonic of Wildness: Sensuousness in Henry David Thoreau'--Victor Carl Friesen, Independent Scholar * 'Volatile Effects: Olfactory Dimensions of Art and Architecture'--Jim Drobnick, Parachute Magazine * 'HYPERAESTHESIA, or, The Sensual Logic of Late Capitalism'--David Howes, Concordia University, Montreal * 'Under the Jaguar Sun'--Italo Calvino * 'Michel Serres' Five Senses'--Steven Connor, Birckbeck College * 'Darwin's Disgust'--William Ian Miller, University of Michigan Law School Part V. The Derangement of the Senses The Senses Disordered 'Strindberg's 'Deranged Sensations''--Hans-Göran Ekman, University of Uppsala * 'Movement, Stillness: On the Sensory World of a Shelter for the 'Homeless Mentally Ill''--Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College, New York * 'Dystoposthesia: Emplacing Environmental Sensitivities'--Christopher Fletcher, University of Alberta, EdmontonGeneral Introduction: Empires of the Senses Part I: The Prescience of the Senses 'Culture Tunes Our Neurons' 'The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See'--Oliver Sacks * 'Inside the Five Sense Sensorium'--Marshall McLuhan, formerly University of Toronto Part II. The Shifting Sensorium Historicizing Perception 'Remembering the Senses'--Susan Stewart, Princeton University * 'The Witch's Senses: Sensory Ideologies and Transgressive Femininities from the Renaissance to Modernity'--Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal * 'The Senses Divided: Organs, Objects, and Media in Early Modern England'--Carla Mazzio, University of Chicago * 'The Death of the Sensuous Chemist: The 'New' Chemistry and the Transformation of Sensuous Technology'--Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, Netherlands * 'Charting the Cultural History of the Senses'-- Alain Corbin, Universites de Paris Part III. Sensescapes Sensation in Cultural Context 'McLuhan in the Rainforest: The Sensory Worlds of Oral Cultures'--Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal * 'Consciousness as 'Feeling in the Body': A West African Theory of Embodiment, Emotion and the Making of Mind'--Kathryn Linn Geurts, Hamline University, Minnesota * 'Places Sensed, Senses Placed: Towards a Sensuous Epistemology of Space'--Steven Feld, University of New Mexico, Albequerque * 'The Tea Ceremony: A Symbolic Analysis'--Dorinne Kondo, University of Southern California * 'Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: Temiar Songs of a Changing World'--Marina Roseman, Indiana University * 'Home Cooking: Filipino Women and Geographies of the Senses in Hong Kong'--Lisa Law, University of St Andrews Part IV. The Aestheticization of Everyday Life Aestheticization Takes Command 'A Tonic of Wildness: Sensuousness in Henry David Thoreau'--Victor Carl Friesen, Independent Scholar * 'Volatile Effects: Olfactory Dimensions of Art and Architecture'--Jim Drobnick, Parachute Magazine * 'HYPERAESTHESIA, or, The Sensual Logic of Late Capitalism'--David Howes, Concordia University, Montreal * 'Under the Jaguar Sun'--Italo Calvino * 'Michel Serres' Five Senses'--Steven Connor, Birckbeck College * 'Darwin's Disgust'--William Ian Miller, University of Michigan Law School Part V. The Derangement of the Senses The Senses Disordered 'Strindberg's 'Deranged Sensations''--Hans-Göran Ekman, University of Uppsala * 'Movement, Stillness: On the Sensory World of a Shelter for the 'Homeless Mentally Ill''--Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College, New York * 'Dystoposthesia: Emplacing Environmental Sensitivities'--Christopher Fletcher, University of Alberta, Edmonton