The Senses Still

by C. Nadia Seremetakis

What has happened to regional experiences that identify and shape culture? Regional foods are disappearing, cultures are dissolving, and homogeneity is spreading. Anthropologist and award-winning author of The Last Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani , C. Nadia Seremetakis brings together essays by five scholars concerned with the senses and the anthropology of everyday life. Covering a wide range of topics—from film to food, from nationalism to the evening news—the authors describe ways in which sensory memories have preserved cultures otherwise threatened by urbanism and modernity.

The contributors are Susan Buck-Morss, Allen Feldman, Jonas Frykman, C. Nadia Seremetakis, and Paul Stoller.

C. Nadia Seremetakis is Advisor to the Minister of Public Health in Greece and visiting professor at the National School of Public Heath in Athens. She is the author of The Last Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani , available from the University of Chicago Press.

Genres: Anthropology, Ethnography

290 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1994

Reviews

[Teresa Levy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think it is a great book. From an anthropolocica point a view it establishes the relation of tradition abd rgw actual by the means of memory but a memory abchored in the senses. There are not many books like this one