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Highlights
- How are the senses and memory linked?
- Author(s): Chanelle Dupuis
- 340 Pages
- Social Science, Anthropology
- Series Name: Sociology
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Book Synopsis
How are the senses and memory linked? What do sensory approaches to research reveal about the functions of memory? This edited volume encompasses various interdisciplinary projects that showcase the value of viewing the world through all of the senses and the ways that memory is multisensorial. From smell's "Proust effect" to music's ability to improve memory and mood, we remember and memorize the world through sensory input. This book expands research on multimodal work, the senses and materiality, the senses and methodology, sensing memories of the past, and technology's impact on sensory lives. The chapters included cover all the senses, as well as the cross-modal experience of synesthesia. Each chapter further covers concepts related to memory studies, ranging from nostalgia, traumatic memories, and memorials to remembering the past (history), archives, and questions of identity. This edited volume is divided into five sections, each containing two to three chapters. The five sections, "Sensing Place and Space," "Art as a Medium of Memory," "In the Mind of Synesthesia," "Making Sense of Materiality," and "Technology and the Sensorium," describe different groupings of interest. From questions of spatiality to digital life, each section invites the reader to explore new developments in the fields of memory studies and sensory studies and new insights on established topics. In these intimate, critical, and penetrating chapters, the authors of this book share new visions of what it means to write at the crossroads of the senses and memory and present new methodologies, frameworks, and pedagogies for examining this interconnection. A resource for both research and teaching, this volume represents a valuable guide for scholars working in sensory studies and memory studies. The hope is that "The Senses and Memory" will inspire future research and thinking in these evolving and expanding fields of study.
Review Quotes
This collection is at once courageous with an edifying potential in welding together conceptual debates across such domains as the senses, memory-making and materiality. Traversing across different parts of the world and through a range of places and spaces, the contributors together convey a fascinating and poignant set of arguments that will appeal to readers with wide-ranging curiosities.
Prof. Dr. Kelvin E. Y. Low
Head, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Memory Studies meet Sensory Studies in this scintillating compendium of research into the materiality, mixity, creativity, affectivity and atrocity of the ephemeral. "The Senses and Memory" is a capital contribution to sensuous scholarship by virtue of the way the contributors revive memories and memorialize sense-experience. Alexander Scriabin, no less than Marcel Proust, would have been thoroughly impressed by this book.
Dr. David Howes
Distinguished Research Professor, Anthropology
Founding Director, Centre for Sensory Studies
Concordia University, Montreal/Tio'tia: ke
Author of "Sensorial Investigations: The Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law"
