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

Name: Culture and the Senses Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community
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ISBN: 9780520234567

ISBN-10: 0520234561

ISBN-13: 9780520234567

Edition: 2003

Authors: Kathryn Linn Guerts

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Adding her stimulating and finely framed ethnography to recent work in the anthropology of the senses, 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 as in literal and metaphorical ways) is an essential component of what it means to be human. Much of perception falls into an Anlo category ofseselelame(literally feel-feel-at-flesh-inside), in which what might be considered sensory input, including the Western sixth-sense notion of…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 6.46" wide x 8.94" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration and Orthography


Map of Southeastern Ghana


Introduction. Cultural Construction of Sensoriums and Sensibilities



Is There a Sixth Sense?



Anlo-Land and Anlo-Ewe People



Conceptualizing Sensory Orientations in Anlo-Land



Language and Sensory Orientations



Moral Embodiment and Sensory Socialization



Kinesthesia and the Development of Moral Sensibilities



Sensory Symbolism in Birth and Infant Care Practices



Person and Identity



Toward an Understanding of Anlo Forms of Being-in-the-World



Personhood and Ritual Reinforcement of Balance



Health, Strength, and Sensory Dimensions of Well-Being



Anlo Cosmology, the Senses, and Practices of Protection



Well-Being, Strength, and Health in Anlo Worlds


Conclusion. Ethnography and the Study of Cultural Difference



Sensory Experience and Cultural Identity


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index Illustrations