| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Culture and the senses/ Kathryn Linn Geurts. |
| Reminder of title: |
bodily ways of knowing in an African community / |
| Author: |
Geurts, Kathryn Linn, |
| Published: |
Berkeley :University of California Press, : c2002., |
| Description: |
xvi, 315 p. :ill., maps ;24 cm. |
| Series: |
Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Is there a sixth sense? -- Anlo-land and Anlo-Ewe people -- Language and sensory orientations -- Kinesthesia and the development of moral sensibilities -- Sensory symbolism in birth and infant care practices -- Toward an understanding of Anlo forms of being-in-the-world -- Personhood and ritual reinforcement of balance -- Anlo cosmology, the senses, and practices of protection -- Well-being, strength, and health in Anlo worlds -- Sensory experience and cultural identity. |
| Subject: |
Anlo (African people) - Psychology. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=90483An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585466297 (electronic bk.) |