Acknowledgments
Most of the articles in this volume were presented in the Ethnicity and Identity seminar series on Senses of Identity at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, in Hilary Term 2006. My thanks go first and foremost to Shirley Ardener, as she knew of my ongoing research on tactility and pain, and had the idea of doing a seminar series on the senses, but generously left the choice of speakers and editing of the volume to myself. I also wish to thank the speakers and contributors for a pleasant process of collaboration, Koen Stroeken for valuable comments on the introduction, and Mark Graham for his rigorous editorial advice and judicious choice of anonymous reviewers.
Notes
This paragraph builds on and responds to Merleau-Ponty Citation1962, Stoller Citation1989, Csordas Citation1994, Ingold Citation2000, Herzfeld Citation2001:245.
Herzfeld's (ibid.) definition, ‘Social codes determine what constitutes acceptable sensory behaviour and indicate what different sensory experiences mean’, obviously is the one Stroeken works with as well.