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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2002.
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| Series: | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;
3. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.