A Sensory Education (Sensory Studies)

A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in expert and everyday settings around the world. Anna Harris shows that our sensing is not innate or acquired, but in fact evolves through learning that is shaped by social and material relations. This book offers an insider's guide to the uncanny and taken-for-granted ways in which adults are trained to improve their senses.

Examples vary from cooking classes and yoga retreats, to perfumery classes and medical training. The book features diverse sources of sensory education, including instructors, field manuals, mannequins, cookbooks and flavour charts.

A Sensory Education is essential reading for those interested in how our sensory skills are trained. Scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy of the senses and food studies will also find much of interest.