The taste of ethnographic things : the senses in anthropology /

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Anthropologists who have lost their senses write ethnographies that are often disconnected from the worlds they seek to portray. For most anthropologists, Stoller contends, tasteless theories are more important than the savory sauces of ethnographic life. That they have lost the smells, sounds, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stoller, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1989.
Series:Contemporary ethnography series.
Subjects:
Songhai (African people)
Senses and sensation > Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnology > Fieldwork > Niger.
Ethnology > Niger > Fieldwork.
Songhaï (Peuple d'Afrique)
Ethnologie > Niger > Recherche sur le terrain.
Sens et sensations > Études transculturelles.
Ethnologie > Recherche sur le terrain > Niger.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Ethnology > Fieldwork.
Senses and sensation.
Ethnologie
Feldforschung
Wahrnehmung
Culturele antropologie.
Songhai.
Onderzoeksmethoden.
Songhaï (peuple d'Afrique)
Niger.
Niger > Moeurs et coutumes.
Cross-cultural studies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A return to the senses
  • pt. I. Tastes in anthropology: The taste of ethnographic things
  • pt. II. Visions in the field: Eye, mind, and word in anthropology
  • "Gazing" at the space of Songhay politics
  • Signs in the social order: Riding a Songhay bush taxi
  • Son of Rouch: Songhay visions of the other
  • pt. III. Sounds in cultural experience: Sound in Songhay possession
  • Sound in Songhay sorcery
  • pt. IV. The senses in anthropology: The reconstruction of ethnography
  • Detours.

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