TY - BOOK ID - 79336829 TI - Wildness & sensation : anthropology of sinister and sensuous realms AU - Zulaika, Joseba AU - van Ginkel, Rob AU - Strating, Alex AU - Vermeulen, Hans AU - Taylor, Lawrence AU - Baumann, Gerd AU - Sunier, Thijl AU - van Gemert, Frank AU - Thoden van Velzen, Bonno AU - van Wetering, Ineke AU - van de Port, Mattijs AU - Boissevain, Jeremy AU - Stengs, Irene AU - Meyer, Birgit AU - van Ede, Yolanda AU - Howes, David AU - Kuik, Suzanne AU - Veenis, Milena AU - van der Hoorn, Mélanie AU - Löfgren, Orvar AU - van der Geest, Sjaak PY - 2007 SN - 9789055892938 PB - Apeldoorn Het Spinhuis DB - UniCat KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - Marginality, Social KW - Material culture KW - #SBIB:39A3 KW - Culture KW - Folklore KW - Technology KW - Exclusion, Social KW - Marginal peoples KW - Social exclusion KW - Social marginality KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Culture conflict KW - Social isolation KW - Sociology KW - People with social disabilities KW - Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79336829 AB - 'What's the system in the madness?' or 'What's the madness in the system?' Of course, it is a query that is - or ought to be - basic to any type of thorough ethnography and grounded theory. It is to these dimensions that the present volume is devoted. The social sciences - including anthropology - predominantly deal with order, not disorder or chaos. Social scientists tend to overlook the wild, uncivilized, transgressive and abhorrent elements of human existence, while they ought to devote systematic attention to this dimension, since it is intrinsic to the human condition, the flipside of 'civilization'. It is in various forms of radical inclusion and exclusion that sensorial sensations and experiences, language, fantasies and art play a vital role in bringing about order and disorder. Hence anthropologists should systematically devote their attention to the importance of all senses in such meaning-making acts: the total sensorial experience of the world and peoples sensitive knowledge of it. Part I, Double-edged Swords: Wildness and Civilization deals with the wild, and often horrible, sides of civilized societies and their body politic. Part II, Making Sense is concerned with material culture, embodied and sensorial experiences and particularly aisthesis and anaesthesia. The modes and manners of imagination, classification, sensitization and representation are the books common denominator and are addressed in an ethnographic, conceptual and a theoretical sense. Around this pivotal issue inspired by the seminal work of Jojada Verrips the editors have succeeded in bringing together an intriguing and thought-provoking set of articles ER -