ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the Anthropology of the Senses. It explains the language and sensory perception, cultivation of the senses, sensory disparities, the limits of senses, synesthesia and western hegemony of Vision. The senses are the beginning and end of human knowledge. Sensory perception physically plunges us into the world where, immersed in a world of significations. We measure the world by these horizons within which our senses confine each of us within prison walls. If the body and the senses are the mediators of our relation to the world, it is only by means of the symbolic meanings that infuse them. Continually engaged in the sensory world, one is imbricated in a world of senses for which the environment is the pretext. The senses give way to a universe of sense-making in which the child constructs reference points, extends beyond the limits of the self, and opens to a feeling of presence in the world.
