Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 315 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520234553
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0520234561
,
052093654X
,
9780520234550
,
9780520234567
,
9780520936546
Series Statement:
Ethnographic studies in subjectivity 3
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-307) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Geurts, Kathryn Linn, 1960- Culture and the senses Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002
Language:
English
URL:
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