


A common point of departure in sensory writings deals with the imperialism of sight and/or the Western pentad sensory model that is critiqued as both Eurocentric and limiting in exploring various other sensory orders across different societies and sensory hierarchies.

Established over the past several decades, scholarship on anthropology of the senses has built upon cognate and extant domains of anthropological inquiry including phenomenology, the body and embodiment, emotions and affect, religion, migration, transnationalism, food and foodways, visual anthropology, and linguistic anthropology, as well as broader theoretical and methodological developments situated in ethnographic endeavors.
