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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Geurts, Kathryn Linn, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Zintuigen.
Socialisatie (sociale wetenschappen)
Psychologie.
Anlo (volk)
Senses and sensation
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
PSYCHOLOGY > Ethnopsychology.
Sens et sensations > Études transculturelles.
Anlo (Peuple d'Afrique) > Socialisation.
Anlo (Peuple d'Afrique) > Psychologie.
Senses and sensation > Cross-cultural studies.
Anlo (African people) > Socialization.
Anlo (African people) > Psychology.
Ghana.
Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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