Sensory studies arises at the conjuncture (and within) the fields of anthropology • sociology • history • archeology • geography • communications • religion • philosophy • literature • art history • museology • film • mixed media • performance • phenomenology • disability • aesthetics • architecture • urbanism • design

Sensory Studies can also be divided along sensory lines into, for example, visual culture, auditory culture (or sound studies), smell culture, taste culture and the culture of touch, not to mention the sixth sense (however it might be defined)

Books of Note 2012

Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery
by Frederick John Lamp, Amanda M. Maples, and Laura M. Smalligan
Yale University Press

Ambiance in Action/Ambiance en actes: Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Ambiances
Edited by Jean-Paul Thibaud and Daniel Siret
HALSHS Archives

The Anthropology of Alternative Medicine
Anamaria Iosif Ross
Routledge

Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics
edited by Marta Zarzycka and Bettina Papenburg
I.B. Tauris

The Color Revolution
by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
The MIT Press

The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch
by Constance Classen
University of Illinois Press

Digital Drama: Teaching and Learning Art and Media in Tanzania
by Paula Uimonen
Routledge

Discord: The Study of Noise
by Mike Goldsmith
Oxford University Press

Foucault and the Politics of Hearing
by Lauri Siisiäinen
Routledge

The Academy of the Senses: Synesthetics in Science, Art, and Education
by Frank Evers
The Hague: ArtScience Press

Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation
by Lisa Blackman
SAGE Publications

Museum Bodies: The Politics and Practices of Visiting and Viewing
by Helen Rees Leahy
Routledge

Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music
by Matthew Rahaim
Wesleyan University Press

The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies
Edited by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld
Oxford University Press

The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910
by Alexandra Hui
The MIT Press

Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe
by Wietse de Boer and Christine Göttler
Brill

Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture
by James McHugh
Oxford Scholarship Online

Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice
Alice E. Sanger and Siv Tove Kulbrandstad Walker
Routledge

The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330
Emma Dillon
Oxford University Press

The Senses and the Enlightenment: An Introduction
Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 35(4)
Wiley Online Library

Senses of Vibration: A History of the Pleasure and Pain of Sound
by Shelley Trower
Bloomsbury

Sensory Aesthetics
edited by Jim Drobnick and Jennfer Fisher
A Special Issue of The Senses and Society 7(2)
Taylor & Francis

Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies
Kara Keeling and Josh Kun (eds.)
Johns Hopkins University Press

The Sound Studies Reader
Edited by Jonathan Sterne
Routledge

Touching Space, Placing Touch
by Mark Paterson and Martin Dodge
Ashgate

Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices
by Gillian Rose and Divya P. Tolia-Kelly
Routledge

What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
by Daniel Chamovitz
MacMillan