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

by Kathryn Linn Geurts

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520234561
• ISBN13: 9780520234567
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"