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Subject: Call for papers...Asian Experiences of Everyday Life

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Date Posted: Thu, October 05 2006, 11:47:26-4

Call for contributions to a book: ASIAN EXPERIENCES OF EVERYDAY
LIFE: THE SENSES IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Scholars working in the social sciences are invited to contribute to an
edited collection based on the roles and meanings of the senses in Asian
contexts. Socio-cultural analyses of the senses have hitherto focused
mainly on Western settings, and on non-industrial contexts through
anthropological endeavours. The collection is an attempt to fill the
lacuna by inviting contributors to deliberate upon the ways by which the
senses influence and organise social actors' everyday life experiences
in Asia, or within Asian communities located in different locales, both
within and beyond the region of Asia. Possible lines of approach include
theoretical considerations, historical deliberations,
empirical/conceptual arguments, and auto-ethnography. How do social
actors perceive and experience space and place through the senses? How
do sights, smells, sounds, and textures operate as defining elements in
relational events? How do codifications of sensual experiences map
everyday life? How is sociality governed by agreements on the operations
and the uses of the senses? What roles do the senses play in relation to
the social shaping of the body, memory, group dynamics, and individual
lived experiences? How do we locate the senses in the contexts of
modernity and post-modernity?

Please submit an abstract of 200-250 words with a short biography
before December 10, 2006. Full papers (6000-6500 words) are due by April
30, 2007. Please email abstracts and papers to both editors:

Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
dkalekin@univ.haifa.ac.il

Kelvin E.Y. Low
socleyk@nus.edu.sg

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