ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses sensations-gatherer demands that the other be preserved in its otherness. The senses are once again matters of theoretical and ethnographic concern, after what David Howes refers to as "a long, dry period in which the senses and sensuality were bypassed by most academics as antithetical to intellectual investigation." Linguistic elaboration of the senses takes numerous forms. One particularly striking one is the expression "listen to that smell" which is used approvingly to refer to the odor of food cooking, and is often accompanied by a noisy intake of breath through the nose. Connerton and Bourdieu pose the question of taste as embodied knowledge or incorporated skill. Georgia complains that she does not have her own rolling pin. And yet the rolling pin she uses is the same "traditional" type as the one she has at home.
