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 -- References cited -- Films cited -- Index.