AN ESSAY ON THE ‘SENSORY (EXPERIENTIAL) PHENOMENON’ WITH A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE ANTHROPOLOGY
AN ESSAY ON THE ‘SENSORY (EXPERIENTIAL) PHENOMENON’ WITH A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE ANTHROPOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: Following the rise of life philosophies and phenomenology in the early 20th century drawing into attention to the importance of human experience; the bodily experience and its sensory contents have begun to be examined. Especially, after World War II, the sensory phenomenon of the human and place interactions and their forms, nature, and dimensions have begun to be examined both scientifically and philosophically. Due to approaches paying attention to the sensorial interpretation of the world, the ‘sensory phenomenon’ emerged as a paradigmatic turn in the field of humanities and social sciences, and anthropology; and anthropologist David Howes called this shift as a ‘sensorial revolution’. This paper starts with a chronological reading on the ‘sensory phenomenon’ in the modern era and continues to discuss the process until the foundation of the nucleus of ‘Centre for Sensory Studies’ in 1988 by anthropologist David Howes and sociologist Anthony Synnott. Then, the paper makes an end of revealing the summary of the period after the 1980s; while the sensory studies influenced a variety of disciplines, and afterwards, the spatial dimensions of the sensations have been explored.

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