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Culture and the Senses : Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community /

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...

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Autor principal: Geurts, Kathryn Linn, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Is there a sixth sense? -- Anlo-land and Anlo-Ewe people -- Language and sensory orientations -- Kinesthesia and the development of moral sensibilities -- Sensory symbolism in birth and infant care practices -- Toward an understanding of Anlo forms of being-in-the-world -- Personhood and ritual reinforcement of balance -- Anlo cosmology, the senses, and practices of protection -- Well-being, strength, and health in Anlo worlds -- Sensory experience and cultural identity. 
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