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The body beyond the face: rethinking multispecies connections through sensory ethnography

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dc.contributor.authorKavesh, Muhammad A.en
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-07T13:41:16Z
dc.date.available2026-05-07T13:41:16Z
dc.date.issued2025en
dc.description.abstractFocusing on the body beyond the face allows multispecies anthropology to embrace a multisensory perspective, opening new possibilities for detecting and understanding the subtleties of interspecies connectedness. The body, transcending any single sense, reveals its multisensorial potentialities: touch evokes emotions, sight inspires visions, hearing deepens into attentive listening, taste fosters companionship, and smell rekindles memories. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s views on the body and my ethnographic work with pigeons and donkeys in Pakistan, this article contends that a bodily oriented, sense-based approach has the potential to generate new forms of knowledge and reimagine relationships that transcend species boundaries.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe work was supported by the Australian Research Council [DE220101073]. I thank Natasha Fijn for her significant contribution to shaping my thoughts on the interplay between multispecies and multisensorial anthropology. I also benefited enormously from presenting this paper as part of the “Sensory Ethnography” panel chaired by David Howes at the 2023 American Anthropological Association meeting and as a plenary at the 2023 Australian Anthropological Society conference in Sydney.en
dc.description.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.format.extent8en
dc.identifier.issn1745-8927en
dc.identifier.otherORCID:/0000-0001-5015-3513/work/213710415en
dc.identifier.scopus105000421200en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733808921
dc.language.isoenen
dc.provenanceCC BY 4.0en
dc.rights© 2025 The Author(s). en
dc.sourceSenses and Societyen
dc.subjectbodyen
dc.subjectEthicsen
dc.subjectfaceen
dc.subjectmultispecies anthropologyen
dc.subjectsensory ethnographyen
dc.titleThe body beyond the face: rethinking multispecies connections through sensory ethnographyen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dspace.entity.typePublicationen
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage221en
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage214en
local.contributor.affiliationKavesh, Muhammad A.; Sch of Culture History & Lang, School of Culture, History & Language, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, The Australian National Universityen
local.identifier.citationvolume20en
local.identifier.doi10.1080/17458927.2025.2475537en
local.identifier.purefdb86a7a-efed-43bf-80c6-3213ddde708ben
local.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105000421200en
local.type.statusPublisheden

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