{"title":"The violence of odors: sensory politics of caste in a leather tannery","authors":"Shivani Kapoor","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2021.1876365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2021.1876365","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Leather is a sensuous object marked by complex affects of desire and disgust. In India, this disgust is amplified due to the association of leather with caste. This paper examines the leather tannery as a space produced through the sensuous discourse of caste violence, which functions by marking leatherworking bodies with odors, that in turn perpetuate affectual and material possibilities of humiliation and discrimination. This violence of odors has no place in the deodorized discourse of law and yet in the sensuous ordering of caste there is nothing more repulsive than to carry the stench of tannery on oneself. The paper examines this intangible and sensual character of caste violence by closely following Paul Stoller’s methodological argument that sensuousness forms the field on which phenomena play out and through which they can be understood. Keeping in mind the value-laden and subjective nature of sensuousness, the paper also reflects on the ways in which the sensory politics of caste frames the interactions between the field and the body of the researcher – both of which are determined by the norms of caste. The ethnographic descriptions of caste and violence in the tannery on which this paper is based are thus mediated by multiple sensorial perceptions, including those of the researcher.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"136 1","pages":"164 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78181849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eco-intimacy and spirit exorcism in the Nigerian Sahel","authors":"C. Casey","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2020.1858651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2020.1858651","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A fervent politics of the senses sparked off in northern Nigeria, when, in 1995, more than 600 Muslim secondary school girls became possessed by spirits, with the new sign of “dancing like they do in Indian film.” Spirit possession in this Bollywood form spread across northern states, co-evolving with a meningitis epidemic as it swept through the desert to kill thousands. This article traces emergent eco-intimacies and the resonant politics of the senses as Bori and Qur’anic scholar-healers, or malams, linked these events, via assertions of ontological power, in the sensory geographic and affective-material movements of humans, spirits and pathogens. Malams reprimanded followers of Bori for calling spirits with music and dance, thus eroding the geographic and bodily boundaries between humans and spirits. They converted humans and spirits to their forms of orthodoxy before expelling spirits from their human hosts. The sensory politics of boundary monitoring and maintenance that emerged underpinned the 2000 implementation of sharia criminal codes across northern states. But, the affective senses of contamination and care did not align with any singular spiritual-political position, eliciting ongoing debates over appropriate spirit-human contact, and double binds in the sensory politics of medicine and state.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"42 1","pages":"132 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87322515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epistolary storytelling: a feminist sensory orientation to ethnography","authors":"Beth A. Uzwiak, Laurian R. Bowles","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2020.1858656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2020.1858656","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents a series of letters the authors exchanged while conducting ethnographic research in Belize and Ghana. The letters reveal an affinity between feminist ethnographic praxis and a politically attuned epistemology of the senses, what the authors call a sensory feminist orientation to scholarship. Expanding on criticism of the way sensory hierarchies inform Western knowledge-building, the authors reevaluate their own epistolary exchange as a methodological provocation. As stories, the letters detail what the authors orient themselves toward in the field, as well as embodied moments of disorientation: danger, violence and estrangement. Untidy and raw, they offer readers an opportunity to “listen to sense” and, in the process, consider the consequences when ethnographers are encouraged to excise certain field encounters from scholarship. The article includes paintings that Beth Uzwiak created while in the field as a component of the authors’ sensory experiment in epistolary ethnography. Their focus on the affective registers of storytelling contributes to broader efforts to disrupt the androcentric tendencies of ethnographic voice.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"29 1","pages":"203 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87004556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensuous entanglements: a critique of cockfighting conceived as a “cultural text”","authors":"Muhammad A. Kavesh","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2020.1858653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2020.1858653","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How can care and cruelty, intimacy and indifference, passion and combat, and attachment and detachment coexist in interspecies relations? How can we develop a deeper understanding of more-than-human relatedness through the study of this nexus? Specifically, how can an understanding of cockfighting as an expression of intimacy lead us to redefine crucial cultural themes such as “masculinity” and “honor” in a rural Pakistani setting? Based on yearlong ethnographic fieldwork in rural South Punjab, this paper argues that in order to understand the multiple modalities of human-rooster relationship, our analysis should delve beneath the visual spectacle and engage with local ways of sensing and understandings of the practice. It contends that a multisensory analysis of cockfighting that focuses on the interplay of different senses – including the sound of roosters, the smell of their bodies, their preference in taste, texture of their plumage and muscles, and the sight of their fight – can help critique and refigure Clifford Geertz’s interpretation of cockfighting as a “cultural text.”","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"158 1","pages":"151 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86729708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensuous futures: re-thinking the concept of trust in design anthropology","authors":"S. Pink","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2020.1858655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2020.1858655","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article sets an agenda for and outlines a sensuous futures scholarship. Its aim is to suggest a starting point for this practice and to invite scholars and researchers to engage in its advancement. By way of example, I examine how the anticipatory concept of trust can be re-worked theoretically and ethnographically through a sensuous approach to scholarship articulated through design anthropology and futures anthropology. I thus argue for a sensuous scholarship that participates in both academic debate and in designing for ethical futures.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"70 1","pages":"193 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91155679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The changing sensory experience of menstruation in central Kerala, India","authors":"Sherin Sabu","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2020.1852726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2020.1852726","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper enucleates menstruation as a sensory experience within and across three generations of women in central Kerala. Drawing heavily on the collected ethnographic data, it establishes that in central Kerala, until the second half of the 20th century, the practices surrounding menarche rites were employed as useful channels to aid a girl in internalizing the sensory order that the society deemed fit for a woman. Similarly, monthly menstruation was marked by compulsory sensory restraint to teach her the feminine virtues of moderation and obedience. However, this has undergone considerable transformation in present-day Kerala, owing to a variety of factors such as the community reform movements of the 19th century, the advent of certain aspects of consumer culture and the introduction of a modern, medical discourse of menstruation. For instance, a short analysis of the everyday sensory practices of contemporary women surrounding menstruation reveals a concurrence with the scheme of modernity to render menstruation and menstruating bodies as invisible. All of this emphasizes the fact that a woman’s sensorium has always been contingent upon the way in which her senses are socialized through menstrual practices, albeit differently at different points of time, in the history of central Kerala.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"23 1","pages":"31 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86945121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The weight of paper books. A conversation with Lisa Kuitert","authors":"Danne Ojeda Hernandez","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2019.1709304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2019.1709304","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This inter(re)view is a conversation with book historian and Professor Lisa Kuitert on the occasion of the publication of her book The Book and the Bathwater. Why Paper Books Matter (Het boek en het badwater. De betekenis van papieren boeken) by Amsterdam University Press. The dialogue starts with a central question: what is the future of the paper book? Kuitert responds by discussing, from a historical perspective, the unique qualities and meaning of paper books (in contradistinction to the immateriality of digital books), as well as the consequences and positive effects that its existence has had for the reader through different epochs. In that journey, she also enriches the definition of the book while contextualizing it amidst the technological developments that influence book production and consumption at all times.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"45 1","pages":"110 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77519569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Food: Bigger than the Plate","authors":"L. E. Enriquez","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2021.1873669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2021.1873669","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"5 1","pages":"123 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86942458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synesthetic gestures: making the imaginary perceptible","authors":"K. Young","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2021.1873668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2021.1873668","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Among the repertoires of vernacular expression available for storytelling are gestural icons, called iconics, and gestural metaphors, called metaphorics in the terminology of David McNeill. Gesture analysts take such co-speech gestures as visual representations of visible phenomena but because they are body movements, all gestures impart tactile-kinesthetic qualities to expressive acts. They are thinking made perceptible outside the body and so disclose our corporeal investment in conceptualizing things. Gestures participate in a sensory ecology that interconnects visual, tactile, and kinesthetic perceptions with words in stories as well as with the worlds the stories conjure up. They are synesthetic holds on imaginary realities.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"106 1","pages":"89 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87893438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Dis)connected parenting: other-tracking in the more-than-human sensorium","authors":"Sarah Maslen","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2020.1852722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2020.1852722","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The range of available tracking technologies that target parents and children has increased dramatically over the last decade, providing functionalities such as location and activity tracking. Situated in emerging conversations on the more-than-human sensorium, this paper investigates tracking practices among Australian parents of children aged between two and eight. In only rare cases had parents adopted tracking apps and sensor-enabled devices. Parents experienced digital sensors as misleading and an interruption to the desired parent-child relationship. Parents instead leaned on their own observations and other sensory cues about their child’s health and wellbeing. These findings emphasize how sensed and sensored ways of knowing can be out of sync rather than mutually instructive where the technology is used to track another body. It also highlights the relevance of sensing in parent-child interaction orders.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"124 1","pages":"67 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80428198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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