Culture and the Senses Kathryn 0th Edition by Kathryn Linn Geurts ISBN 978-0520234550 0520234553

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ISBN 10:  0520234553

ISBN 13: 978-0520234550

Author: Kathryn Linn Geurts

Adding her stimulating and finely framed ethnography to recent work in the anthropology of the senses, 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.

Much of perception falls into an Anlo category of seselelame (literally feel-feel-at-flesh-inside), in which what might be considered sensory input, including the Western sixth-sense notion of “intuition,” comes from bodily feeling and the interior milieu. The kind of mind-body dichotomy that pervades Western European-Anglo American cultural traditions and philosophical thought is absent. Geurts relates how Anlo society privileges and elaborates what we would call kinesthesia, which most Americans would not even identify as a sense. After this nuanced exploration of an Anlo-Ewe theory of inner states and their way of delineating external experience, readers will never again take for granted the “naturalness” of sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell.

Table of contents: 

1. Acknowledgments

2. Note on Transliteration and Orthography

3. Map of Southeastern Ghana

4. Introduction. Cultural Construction of Sensoriums and Sensibilities

5. Is There a Sixth Sense?

6. Anlo-Land and Anlo-Ewe People

Part One. Conceptualizing Sensory Orientations in Anlo-Land
7. Language and Sensory Orientations

Part Two. Moral Embodiment and Sensory Socialization
8. Kinesthesia and the Development of Moral Sensibilities
9. Sensory Symbolism in Birth and Infant Care Practices

Part Three. Person and Identity
10. Toward an Understanding of Anlo Forms of Being-in-the-World
11. Personhood and Ritual Reinforcement of Balance

Part Four. Health, Strength, and Sensory Dimensions of Well-Being
12. Anlo Cosmology, the Senses, and Practices of Protection
13. Well-Being, Strength, and Health in Anlo Worlds

Conclusion. Ethnography and the Study of Cultural Difference
14. Sensory Experience and Cultural Identity

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