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Sensory history
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ISBN: 9781845204143 184520414X 9781845204150 1845204158 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford Berg

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Culture and the senses : bodily ways of knowing in an African community.
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ISBN: 0520234561 0520234553 9780520234567 Year: 2002 Volume: 3 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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Adding her stimulating and finely framed ethnography to recent work in the anthropology of the senses, Kathryn Geurts investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. Geurts discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance in Anlo culture, where balance is a sense, and balancing (in a physical and psychological sense as well as in literal and metaphorical ways) is an essential component of what it means to be human. Much of perception falls into an Anlo category of 'seselelame '(literally feel-feel-at-flesh-inside), in which what might be considered sensory input, including the Western sixth-sense notion of "intuition," comes from bodily feeling and the interior milieu. The kind of mind-body dichotomy that pervades Western European-Anglo American cultural traditions and philosophical thought is absent. Geurts relates how Anlo society privileges and elaborates what we would call kinesthesia, which most Americans would not even identify as a sense. After this nuanced exploration of an Anlo-Ewe theory of inner states and their way of delineating external experience, readers will never again take for granted the "naturalness" of sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell.


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A different kind of ethnography : imaginative practices and creative methodologies
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ISBN: 9781442636613 1442636610 Year: 2017 Publisher: Toronto University of Toronto Press

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"Produced by members of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography, this collection introduces the idea of an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry, one that is collaborative, open-ended, embodied, affective, and experimental. Rather than structuring the book around traditional methods like interviewing, participant observation, and documentary research, the authors organize their thoughts around different methodologies--sensing, walking, writing, performing, and recording. As well, innovative, practical exercises are included that allow ethnographers to not just 'talk the talk', but also 'walk the walk' so they can deepen, complicate, and extend ethnographic inquiry. A list of additional resources at the end of each chapter provide rich support for those who want to pursue more imaginative and creative methodologies."--

Sensual relations : engaging the senses in culture and social theory
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ISBN: 1282594044 9786612594045 0472026224 9780472026227 0472068466 0472098462 9780472098460 9780472068463 9781282594043 6612594047 Year: 2003 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,


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La mesure des sens : les anthropologues et le corps humain au XIXe siècle
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ISBN: 2700723392 9782700723397 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris : Aubier,

Sensuous scholarship
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ISBN: 9780812216158 0812216156 0812233980 9786613211972 1283211971 0812203135 9780812233988 Year: 1997 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Among the Songhay of Mali and Niger, who consider the stomach the seat of personality, learning is understood not in terms of mental activity but in bodily terms. Songhay bards study history by "eating the words of the ancestors," and sorcerers learn their art by ingesting particular substances, by testing their flesh with knives, by mastering pain and illness.In Sensuous Scholarship Paul Stoller challenges contemporary social theorists and cultural critics who—using the notion of embodiment to critique Eurocentric and phallocentric predispositions in scholarly thought—consider the body primarily as a text that can be read and analyzed. Stoller argues that this attitude is in itself Eurocentric and is particularly inappropriate for anthropologists, who often work in societies in which the notion of text, and textual interpretation, is foreign.Throughout Sensuous Scholarship Stoller argues for the importance of understanding the "sensuous epistemologies" of many non-Western societies so that we can better understand the societies themselves and what their epistemologies have to teach us about human experience in general.

Sensible objects : colonialism, museums and material culture
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ISBN: 9781845203245 9781845203238 1845203240 1845203232 9781003086611 1003086616 9781000183436 1000183432 9781847883155 9781000186949 1000186946 9781000190069 1000190064 1474215467 184788315X 9781474215466 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford : Berg,

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Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sense of vision in the analysis of material culture. Contributors argue that vision can only be understood in relation to the other senses. In this they present another challenge to the assumed western five-sense model, and show how our understanding of material culture in both historical and contemporary contexts might be reconfigured if we consider the role of smell, taste, touch and sound, as well as sight, in making meanings about objects.

The Taste of Ethnographic things : the sense of anthropology
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ISBN: 0812212924 0812281861 9780812281866 9780812212921 Year: 1990 Publisher: London ; New York, NY ; Rheine : University of Pennsylvania. University Museum,


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Le mal et la douleur : (accompagne et prolonge l'exposition le mal et la douleur, presentee du 7 juin 1986 au 4 janvier 1987)
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ISBN: 2880780071 9782880780074 Year: 1986 Publisher: Neuchâtel : Musée d'ethnographie [Neuchâtel],

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