ABSTRACT
This introductory chapter deals with concepts given in book "Sensing the World". The world that we inhabit exists through the agency of our flesh, which rises to greet it. In the end, they also offer an interpretation of the forest, but strive to expand their view and their senses in order to understand this layering of realities. Sensory experience is primarily shaped by the meanings of the world as it is lived, because this is the only form of experience it provides. Our sensory perceptions, intertwined with meanings, delineate the fluctuating limits of the environment in which we live, revealing its range and flavor. Sensory perceptions form a prism of meanings on and from the world. They are shaped through education and brought into play according to the personal history of each individual. Sensory anthropology explores and maps what human beings belonging to different societies make of their ability to see, smell, touch, hear and taste.
