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Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community Volume 3

Contributor(s): Geurts, Kathryn (Author)

ISBN: 9780520234567

Publisher: University of California Press

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Pub Date: January 9, 2003

Dewey: 155.84963374

LCCN: 2002022585

Lexile Code: 1520

Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.86" H x 9.00" L x 6.10" W ( 1.08 lbs) 330 pages

Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity

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Description: This study demonstrates how sensory orders vary due to cultural tradition, and provides an in-depth, ethnographic account of the sensorium of a West African people--Anlo-Ewe speakers in southeastern Ghana, whose indigenous sensory order includes balance, kinesthesia, proprioception (feeling the body), and even speech.

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