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Culture and the senses : bodily ways of knowing in an African community

Author: Kathryn Linn Geurts
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Series: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity, 3.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Cross-cultural studies
Études transculturelles
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Kathryn Linn Geurts
ISBN: 0520234553 9780520234550 0520234561 9780520234567
OCLC Number: 49225861
Description: xvi, 315 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity, 3.
Responsibility: Kathryn Linn Geurts.
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