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SMELL
Bedichek, Roy. The Sense of Smell. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1960.
Bloch, Iwan. Odoratus Sexualis. New York: New York Anthropological Society, 1937.
Burton, Robert. The Language of Smell. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976.
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Gombrowicz, Witold. Diary, Vol. I. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1988.
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TOUCH
Allen, J. W. T., ed. and trans. The Customs of the Swahili People. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981
BBC/WGBH. “A Touch of Sensitivity.” December 9, 1980.
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Lebeck, Robert. The Kiss. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981.
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Montagu, Ashley. Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.
Nyrop, Christopher, trans. W. F. Harvey. The Kiss and Its History. London: Sand and Co., 1901.
Perella, Nicolas James. The Kiss Sacred and Profane. Berkeley and Los Angeles University of California Press, 1969.
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TASTE
Angier, Bradford. How to Stay Alive in the Woods. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
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HEARING
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VISION
Bataille, Georges, trans. J. Neugroschal. Story of the Eye. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1987.
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——. The Sense of Sight. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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Taylor, Joshua C. Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1957.
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