Bernadette Papenburg and Patrick Eiselohr

The Anthropology of the Senses

Essential Readings:

Constance Classen: “Foundation for an Anthropology of the Senses”. In: International Social Science Journal, September 1997, No. 153, pp. 401-412.
Michael Taussig: “His Master’s Voice”. In: M. Taussig: Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses. Routledge: New York, 1993, pp. 212-235.

Optional Reading:

Christopher Pinney: “The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Or, What Happens When Peasants ‘Get Hold’ of Images”. In: Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod and Brian Larkin, eds.: Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, pp. 355-369.
Paul Stoller: “The Taste of Ethnographic Things”. In: P. Stoller: The Taste of Ethnographic Things. The Senses in Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, pp. 15-34.

The Haptic in/of Film

Essential Reading:

Vivian Sobchack: “What my Fingers Knew: The Cinesthetic Subject, or Vision in the Flesh”. In: V. Sobchack: Carnal Thoughts. Embodiment and Moving Image Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, pp. 53-84.

Optional Reading:

Laura U. Marks: “Video Haptics and Erotics”. In: L. U. Marks: Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, pp. 1-20.