Exploring the Senses : South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity /

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Imprint:Routledge India, 2015.
Description:1 online resource ( 350 pages.)
Language:English
Series:South Asian and European perspectives on rituals and performativity
South Asian and European perspectives on rituals and performativity.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12493482
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Other authors / contributors:Michaels, Axel, editor.
Wulf, Christoph, 1944- editor.
ISBN:9781317342106
1317342100
0415711061
9780415711067
9781317342113
1317342119
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Other form:Original 0415711061 9780415711067
Table of Contents:
  • Exploring the senses in rituals and performances : an introduction / Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf
  • The windows on the world : the senses and inner life / Remo Bodei
  • Sensory perception and notions of the senses in samkhya philosophy / Angelika Malinar
  • Senses, human and divine / Gerard Colas
  • The divine embrace : role of senses in pusthimarga / Anand Mishra
  • Managing the senses in Sant devotion / Monika Horstmann
  • The vision : control, desire, perception / Christoph Wulf
  • Seeing ghosts in India and Europe / William S. Sax
  • Sonic perception and acoustic communication in Hindu India / Annette Wilke
  • "Noise" or "Silence?" listening to sacred sound in 20th-century Europe / Karsten Lichau
  • The sonic persona : an anthropology of sound / Holger Schulze
  • Taste as an aesthetic sense / Alain Montandon
  • Scent of a flower : notes on olfaction in Hindu Worship / Astrid Zotter
  • Untouchability and tactility in Hindu death rituals / Axel Michaels
  • Senses of movement : kinesthetics and synesthetics in contemporary dance practices / Gabriele Brandstetter
  • Memory, experience and imagination in performance / Jayachandran Palazhy
  • Family constellation therapy : body memory and the sense of space / Jan Weinhold
  • Performative ritual as sensual experience of body, place and sociality / Karin M. Polit
  • Unity of the senses in Indian thought / Sundar Sarukkai
  • The politics of the senses : on vision and hearing in Hannah Arendt's "Vita Activa" / Theofanis Tasis
  • The sky around our bodies : climate and atmospheric perception / Madalina Diaconu.