AFFINITIES

How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another ti me by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family resemblances sometimes feel uncanny? In each of these cases a potent co nnection is being made, involving forces, flows, energies and atmospherics that conventional sociological approaches can find hard t o grasp, but that are important nonetheless. In this innovative book Jennifer Mason argues that these are affinities potent charg es and ch...[Read more]