Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses

Everyday Life in Asia offers a range of detailed case studies presenting social perspectives on sensory experiences in Asia. Thematically organized around the notions of the experience of space and place, tradition and the senses, cross-border sensory experiences, and habitus and the senses its rich empirical content reveals people's commitment to place, and the manner in which its sensory experience provides the key to penetrating the meanings abound in everyday life.

Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina, USA, author of Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History (University of California Press, 2008).