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David Howes

In: Handbook of Material Culture

Chapter 10: Scent, Sound and Synaesthesia: Intersensoriality and Material Culture Theory

Edited by: Christopher Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Michael Rowlands & Patricia Spyer

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781848607972.n11

Subject: Cultural Studies (general), Material Culture, Culture & History

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Howes, D. (2006). Scent, sound and synaesthesia: intersensoriality and material culture theory. In C. TilleyW. Keane & S. Küchler Handbook of material culture (pp. 161-172). London: SAGE Publications Ltd doi: 10.4135/9781848607972.n11

Howes, David. "Scent, Sound and Synaesthesia: Intersensoriality and Material Culture Theory." In Handbook of Material Culture, 161-172. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2006. doi: 10.4135/9781848607972.n11.

Howes, D 2006, 'Scent, sound and synaesthesia: intersensoriality and material culture theory', in Handbook of material culture, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 161-172, viewed 31 May 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781848607972.n11.

Howes, David. "Scent, Sound and Synaesthesia: Intersensoriality and Material Culture Theory." Handbook of Material Culture. Christopher TilleyWebb Keane and Susanne Küchler. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2006. 161-172. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 31 May. 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781848607972.n11.

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Scent, Sound and Synaesthesia: Intersensoriality and Material Culture Theory
Scent, sound and synaesthesia: Intersensoriality and material culture theory

The importance of attending to the multiple sensory dimensions of objects, architectures and landscapes is quickly becoming a central tenet of material culture theory. This sensual turn – or better, ‘revolution’ (Howes 2004) – is evident in the various references to the sensuous made by the contributors to The Material Culture Reader (Buchli 2002). In ‘Contested landscapes’, Barbara Bender writes: ‘landscapes are not just “views” but intimate encounters. They are not just about seeing, but about experiencing with all the senses’ (2002: 136). In his chapter on ‘Trench art’, Nicholas Saunders discusses the heightened sensory experience of warfare,1 and the ability of material objects (e.g. recycled munition shells) ...

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