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Sensuous Scholarship

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Description for Sensuous Scholarship Paperback. Challenges social theorists and cultural critics who, using the notion of embodiment to critique Eurocentric and phallocentric predispositions in scholarly thought, consider the body primarily as a text that can be read and analyzed. This book argues that this attitude is in itself Eurocentric. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 184 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 258.

Among the Songhay of Mali and Niger, who consider the stomach the seat of personality, learning is understood not in terms of mental activity but in bodily terms. Songhay bards study history by "eating the words of the ancestors," and sorcerers learn their art by ingesting particular substances, by testing their flesh with knives, by mastering pain and illness.

In Sensuous Scholarship Paul Stoller challenges contemporary social theorists and cultural critics who—using the notion of embodiment to critique Eurocentric and phallocentric predispositions in scholarly thought—consider the body primarily as a text that can be read and analyzed. Stoller argues that ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Series
Contemporary Ethnography
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812216158
SKU
V9780812216158
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About Paul Stoller
Paul Stoller is Professor of Anthroopology at West Chester University and the author of The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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