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Culture and the Senses

Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community
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Adding her finely-framed ethnography to the collected work on 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 of seselelame (literally feel-feel-at-flesh-inside), in which what might be considered sensory input, including the Western sixth-sense notion of "intuition" comes from bodily feeling and the interior milieu. The kind of mind-body dichotomy that pervades Western European-Anglo American cultural traditions and philosophical thought is absent. Geurts relates how Anlo society privileges and elaborates what we would call kinesthesia, which most Americans would not even identify as a sense.

Author Biography:

Kathryn Linn Geurts is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hamline University.
Release date Australia
January 9th, 2003
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
21 b-w photographs, 1 map
Pages
330
Dimensions
152x229x23
ISBN-13
9780520234567
Product ID
25013609

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