| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 166 pages) : illustrations |
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Contemporary ethnography |
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Contemporary ethnography.
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| Contents |
Prologue: The Scholar's Body -- pt. 1: Embodied Practices -- Introduction: The Way of the Body -- The Sorcerer's Body -- The Griot's Tongue -- pt. 2: Body and Memory -- Introduction: The Texture of Memory -- Embodying Colonial Memories -- "Conscious" Ain't Consciousness: Entering the Museum of Sensory Absence -- pt. 3: Embodied Representations -- Introduction: Embodying the Grammar -- Spaces, Places, and Fields: The Politics of West African Trading in New York City's Informal Economy -- Artaud, Rouch, and the Cinema of Cruelty -- Epilogue: Sensuous Ways of Knowing/Living |
| Summary |
In Sensuous Scholarship Paul Stoller challenges contemporary social theorists and cultural critics who - using the notion of embodiment to critique both Eurocentric and phallocentric predispositions in scholarly thought - consider the body primarily as a text that can be read and analyzed. He argues that this attitude is in itself Eurocentric and is particularly inappropriate for anthropologists, who often work in societies in which the notion of text, and textual interpretation, is foreign. In many of these societies not only are reading and writing unimportant but vision is not the central perceptual mode. Instead, the "lower" senses are central to the metaphoric organization of experience. Throughout Sensuous Scholarship Stoller argues for the importance of understanding the "sensuous epistemologies" of many non-Western societies so that we can better understand the societies themselves and what their epistemologies have to teach us about human experience in general |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index |
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Filmography: page 161 |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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This edition in English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Ethnology -- Methodology.
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Sensuality.
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Songhai (African people) -- Religion
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Songhai (African people) -- History
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Songhai (African people) -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Ethnology -- Methodology
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Ethnology -- Philosophy
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Sensuality
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Songhai (African people)
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Songhai (African people) -- Religion
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Songhai (African people) -- Social conditions
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Philosophische Anthropologie
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Leib-Seele-Problem
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Religion
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Etnografie.
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Wetenschappelijke technieken.
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Songhai.
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Ethnologie -- Philosophie.
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Sensualité.
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Songhaï (peuple d'Afrique)
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Songhai.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
96053514 |
| ISBN |
9780812203134 |
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0812203135 |
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