Read Sensuous Scholarship

Sensuous Scholarship

Paul Stoller

4.9/5 (17023 ratings)

Description: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 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.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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sensuous Scholarship. To get started finding Sensuous Scholarship, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0812216156

Description: 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 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.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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sensuous Scholarship. To get started finding Sensuous Scholarship, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Sensuous Scholarship

Sensuous Scholarship

More Books

In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger

In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger

Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City

Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City

Stranger in the Village of the Sick: A Memoir of Cancer, Sorcery, and Healing

Stranger in the Village of the Sick: A Memoir of Cancer, Sorcery, and Healing

The Power of the Between: An Anthropological Odyssey

The Power of the Between: An Anthropological Odyssey

The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology

The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology

Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of Niger

Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of Niger

Jaguar: A Story of Africans in America

Jaguar: A Story of Africans in America

Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City 1st edition by Stoller, Paul (2002) Paperback

Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City 1st edition by Stoller, Paul (2002) Paperback

The Power of the Between: An Anthropological Odyssey by Paul Stoller (2008-12-15)

The Power of the Between: An Anthropological Odyssey by Paul Stoller (2008-12-15)