The Senses Still

The Senses Still

<div>What has happened to regional experiences that identify and shape culture? Regional foods are disappearing, cultures are dissolving, and homogeneity is spreading. Anthropologist and award-winning author of <I>The Last Word: Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani</I>, C. Nadia Seremetakis brings together essays by five scholars concerned with the senses and the anthropology of everyday life. Covering a wide range of topics€"from film to food, from nationalism to the evening news€"the authors describe ways in which sensory memories have preserved cultures otherwise threatened by urbanism and modernity.<br><br>The contributors are Susan Buck-Morss, Allen Feldman, Jonas Frykman, C. Nadia Seremetakis, and Paul Stoller.<br><br>C. Nadia Seremetakis is Advisor to the Minister of Public Health in Greece and visiting professor at the National School of Public Heath in Athens. She is the author of <I>The Last Word: Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani</I>, available from the University of Chicago Press.<br></div>