Name: Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community (en Inglés)
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Author: Kathryn Linn Geurts
ISBN: 9780520234567

portada Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Univ Of California Pr

Autor

Kathryn Linn Geurts

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

293

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

0520234561

ISBN13

9780520234567

N° edición

Categorías

Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica

Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community (en Inglés)

Kathryn Linn Geurts (Autor) · Univ Of California Pr · Tapa Blanda

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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.