عنوان

Sensuous scholarship /

(Number (ISBN

0812216156

(Number (ISBN

0812233980

(Number (ISBN

9780812216158

(Number (ISBN

9780812233988

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b523554

Title Proper

Sensuous scholarship /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Paul Stoller

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Philadelphia :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[1997]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1997

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xviii, 166 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Series Title

Contemporary ethnography

Text of Note

Filmography: page 161

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index

Text of Note

In Sensuous Scholarship Paul Stoller challenges contemporary social theorists and cultural critics who - using the notion of embodiment to critique both Eurocentric and phallocentric predispositions in scholarly thought - consider the body primarily as a text that can be read and analyzed. He argues that this attitude is in itself Eurocentric and is particularly inappropriate for anthropologists, who often work in societies in which the notion of text, and textual interpretation, is foreign. In many of these societies not only are reading and writing unimportant but vision is not the central perceptual mode. Instead, the "lower" senses are central to the metaphoric organization of experience. Throughout Sensuous Scholarship Stoller argues for the importance of understanding the "sensuous epistemologies" of many non-Western societies so that we can better understand the societies themselves and what their epistemologies have to teach us about human experience in general

Title

Sensuous scholarship.

Ethnology-- Methodology

Ethnology-- Philosophy

Sensuality

Songhai (African people)-- History

Songhai (African people)-- Religion

Songhai (African people)-- Social conditions

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Stoller, Paul

Date of Transaction

20160712064749.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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