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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Geurts, Kathryn Linn, 1960-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Collection:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 3.
Sujets:
Anlo (African people) > Psychology.
Anlo (African people) > Socialization.
Senses and sensation > Cross-cultural studies.
Anlo (Peuple d'Afrique) > Psychologie.
Anlo (Peuple d'Afrique) > Socialisation.
Sens et sensations > Études transculturelles.
PSYCHOLOGY > Ethnopsychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Senses and sensation
Anlo (volk)
Psychologie.
Socialisatie (sociale wetenschappen)
Zintuigen.
Ghana.
Cross-cultural studies.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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