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Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community - Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity Prof. Kathryn Geurts
Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community - Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
Prof. Kathryn Geurts
Investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. This book relates how Anlo society privileges and elaborates what we would call kinesthesia, which most Americans would not even identify as a sense.
330 pages, 21 b/w photographs, 1 map
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 9, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520234567 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 330 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 155 × 26 mm · 500 g |
| Language | English |