Sensory Anthropology

The course will challenge everyday life and mundane details in ethnographic research, taken from the perspective of continental, i.e., European ethnology and sensorial studies. It will touch the everyday aspects in production of art, music and science as well critically examine new materialist approaches in understanding of digital materialities and embodied memories of specific constitutive places of everyday life. Students will test and experience some methods in sensorial studies, e.g., soundwalk , sensory walkand senso-biographic walk.

The course consists of three parts:
- Sensorial dimensions in studies of everyday life and memories of experiential places
- Ethnography as practice, art, and method – merits of Continental ethnographic techniques
- Sensual meanings and touches of reality: from sensorial revolution to anthropology from a pragmatic point of view.

1. Classen, Constance, ur., 2005, The book of touch. Oxford; New York: Berg.
2. Howes, David, 2003, Sensual relations: engaging the senses in culture and social theory. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press. [COBISS.SI-ID - 69205602]
3. Howes, David, ur., 2005, Empire of the senses: the sensual culture reader. Oxford ; New York: Berg. [COBISS.SI-ID - 34489698]
4. Howes, David, and Constance Classen, 2014, Ways of sensing: understanding the senses in society. London; New York: Routledge. [COBISS.SI-ID - 1750918]
5. Järviluoma, Helmi in Lesley Murray, ur., 2023, Sensory Transformations: Environments, Technologies, Sensobiographies. London; New York: Routledge.
6. Laplantine, François, 2015, The life of the senses: introduction to a modal anthropology. P.J. Furniss, transl. London; New Delhi; New York; Sydney: Bloomsbury. [COBISS.SI-ID - 57844834]
7. Le Breton, David, 2017, Sensing the world: an anthropology of the senses. C. Ruschiensky, transl. London; Oxford; New York, New Delhi; Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic. [COBISS.SI-ID - 44086573]
8. Muršič, Rajko, Blaž Bajič in Sandi Abram, ur., 2022, Občutki mest: Antropologija, umetnost, čutne transformacije. Ljubljana: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, Znanstvena založba FF. [COBISS.SI-ID - 120731395]
9. Springgay, Stephanie, and Sarah E. Truman, 2019, Walking methodologies in a more-than-human world: WalkingLab. London; New York: Routledge. [COBISS.SI-ID - 65056003]
10. Stoller, Paul, 1989, The taste of ethnographic things: the senses in anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.