ANTH107

This course considers the senses and sensory perception from a sociocultural perspective. How do our senses help us to order and organize our world? How are our senses themselves ordered and organized? In what ways might our senses be intertwined with the world in which we live? This course considers these questions in a range of different contexts, and it challenges students to think about the senses as socially and culturally constructed pathways between bodies and worlds. In doing so, the course directs our attention to the politics of the senses: namely, how worlds of perception and experience are opened for us, closed to us, and shaped by forces beyond our immediate control.