[Last modified: October, 31 2024 11:45 AM]
I am interested in developing a pilot project in Anthropology of Sensitivity as theoretical basis. What makes an ordinary dinner unforgettable? Therefore, I will expplore how our senses perception such as taste (food and drinks), sounds (music), visuals (lighting and dress code), services, locations contribuite to make a ordinary dinner party unforgettable. Some of those might be a collective perception e.g venues, services, others very particular, individual to evaluate such as taste, smells.
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“ The hierarchy of the senses – with seeing at its apex, followed by hearing, and smelling, tasting and touching at its base – these seers and observers proclaimed and enforced, both created and mirrored a social hierarchy as they thought it to be morally right because natural. Their sensory hierarchy connected meaning and employment of particular senses in work, social behaviour and living circumstances to the social status of every person. In reverse, those who counted themselves to be seers would assign to each category of people a certain dominant sense confirm their social position. In this way, women were said to have a natural capacities for smell, taste and touch, which made them inadequate for any intellectual labour that relies on sight and sound for reading and discussion. Their natural tasks were, therefore, perceived to be cleaning, cooking and care-taking (Classen 2005).”
