Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Empires of the Senses 1(20) Part I: The Prescience of the Senses `Culture Tunes Our Neurons' 21(4) The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See 25(18) Oliver Sacks Inside the Five Sense Sensorium 43(16) Marshall McLuhan Part II: The Shifting Sensorium Historicizing Perception 55(4) Remembering the Senses 59(11) Susan Stewart The Witch's Senses: Sensory Ideologies and Transgressive Femininities from the Renaissance to Modernity 70(15) Constance Classen The Senses Divided: Organs, Objects, and Media in Early Modern England 85(21) Carla Mazzio The Death of the Sensuous Chemist: The `New' Chemistry and the Transformation of Sensuous Technology 106(22) Lissa Roberts Charting the Cultural History of the Senses 128(19) Alain Corbin Part III: Sensescapes Sensation in Cultural Context 143(4) McLuhan in the Rainforest: The Sensory Worlds of Oral Cultures 147(17) Constance Classen Consciousness as `Feeling in the Body': A West African Theory of Embodiment, Emotion and the Making of Mind 164(15) Kathryn Linn Geurts Places Sensed, Senses Placed: Toward a Sensuous Epistemology of Environments 179(13) Steven Feld The Tea Ceremony: A Symbolic Analysis 192(20) Dorinne Kondo Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: Temiar Songs of a Changing World 212(12) Marina Roseman Home Cooking: Filipino Women and Geographies of the Senses in Hong Kong 224(27) Lisa Law Part IV: The Aestheticization of Everyday Life Aestheticization Takes Command 245(6) A Tonic of Wildness: Sensuousness in Henry David Thoreau 251(14) Victor Carl Friesen Volatile Effects: Olfactory Dimensions of Art and Architecture 265(16) Jim Drobnick Hyperesthesia, or, The Sensual Logic of Late Capitalism 281(23) David Howes Under the Jaguar Sun 304(14) Italo Calvino Michel Serres' Five Senses 318(17) Steven Connor Darwin's Disgust 335(26) William Ian Miller Part V: The Derangement of the Senses The Senses Disordered 357(4) Strindberg's `Deranged Sensations' 361(8) Hans-Goran Ekman Movement, Stillness: On the Sensory World of a Shelter for the `Homeless Mentally Ill' 369(11) Robert Desjarlais Dystoposthesia: Emplacing Environmental Sensitivities 380(33) Christopher Fletcher Sensory Bibliography Forming Perceptions 399(5) Fifty Ways to Come to your Senses 404(3) List of Contributors 407(2) Copyright Acknowledgments 409(4) Index 413