| Description |
1 online resource (200 pages) |
| Series |
Contemporary Ethnography |
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Contemporary ethnography.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of llustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Return to the Senses; PART I: Tastes in Anthropology; 1 The Taste of Ethnographic Things; PART II: Visions in the Field; 2 Eye, Mind, and Word in Anthropology; 3 ""Gazing"" at the Space of Songhay Politics; 4 Signs in the Social Order: Riding a Songhay Bush Taxi; 5 Son of Rouch: Songhay Visions of the Other; PART III: Sounds in Cultural Experience; 6 Sound in Songhay Possession; 7 Sound in Songhay Sorcery; PART IV: The Senses in Anthropology; 8 The Reconstruction of Ethnography; 9 Detours; Notes |
| Summary |
Anthropologists who have lost their senses write ethnographies that are often disconnected from the worlds they seek to portray. For most anthropologists, Stoller contends, tasteless theories are more important than the savory sauces of ethnographic life. That they have lost the smells, sounds, and tastes of the places they study is unfortunate for them, for their subjects, and for the discipline itself. The Taste of Ethnographic Things describes how, through long-term participation in the lives of the Songhay of Niger, Stoller eventually came to his senses. Taken together, the separate chapters speak to two important and integrated issues. The first is methodological--all the chapters demonstrate the rewards of long-term study of a culture. The second issue is how he became truer to the Songhay through increased sensual awareness |
| Bibliography |
References CitedFilms Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnologie -- Niger -- Recherche sur le terrain
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Niger
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork
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Sens et sensations -- Études transculturelles
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Senses and sensation -- Cross-cultural studies
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Songhai (African people)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork
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Senses and sensation
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Songhai (African people)
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Niger
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812203141 |
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0812203143 |
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