Sensuous scholarship / Paul Stoller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoller, Paul.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Anthropology online.

Anthropology online

Contemporary ethnography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Philosophy.

Sensuality.

Songhai (African people)--History.

Songhai (African people).

Songhai (African people)--Religion.

Songhai (African people)--Social conditions.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 166 pages).

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1997]

Language Note:

This edition in English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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."--ORIGINAL BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Prologue: The Scholar's Body

Pt. 1: Embodied Practices

Introduction: The Way of the Body

The Sorcerer's Body

The Griot's Tongue

Pt. 2: Body and Memory

Introduction: The Texture of Memory

Embodying Colonial Memories

"Conscious" Ain't Consciousness: Entering the Museum of Sensory Absence

Pt. 3: Embodied Representations

Introduction: Embodying the Grammar

Spaces, Places, and Fields: The Politics of West African Trading in New York City's Informal Economy

Artaud, Rouch, and the Cinema of Cruelty

Epilogue: Sensuous Ways of Knowing/Living.

Notes:

Filmography: page 161.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-159) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Anthropology online). Available via World Wide Web.

OCLC:

669679337

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