ABSTRACT
The vernacular understanding of touch has to do with the sensing of contact on the skin and/or what one feels with hands, limbs or other parts of the body. In the arts, the tactile was eventually subsumed under the visual, and the affective reduced to the intellectual, while in anthropology touch, due to its intense corporeality, remained at the intersection of physical and cultural anthropology. In the context of anthropology proper, anthropologists began exploring the inclusion of visual technology in the field and at the same time developed a critique of visual realism. The understanding of poesis is complicit with Modern Greek women’s everyday practices and experiences such as embroidering, the (re)ordering of relics, and cooking. Greek everyday experience has been bombarded by innumerable TV cooking programs coupled with massive advertising on Mediterranean dieting and delicious exotic recipes. Taste and touch officially designated as the uninheritable, have been unconsciously and consciously suppressed.
