Anthropologists study the senses in relation to the social, political and cultural context in which the human sensorium is formed and assumes significance. Aside from their neurobiological underpinnings, the senses – and there are more than 5! – are dynamic interfaces in our relationship to the world, mediating and being mediated by cultural, technological and political changes. At different times in different places, the sensorium has been divided and organized in different ways. Which senses are emphasized and which senses get repressed, by what means and to which ends? What are we allowed to sense, and what sensings are taken as signs of madness, assumed irrational or delusory? Starting with some classic anthropological works on the senses in different cultures, the course will focus on sensory experiences less considered, as well as practices of perception and the cultivation of a range of sensory capacities, from sensing the dead to healing via hallucinations.