On rocks, walks, and talks in West Africa: Cultural categories and an anthropology of the senses

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作者
Geurts, KL [1 ]
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[1] Hamline Univ, St Paul, MN 55104 USA
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10.1525/eth.2002.30.3.178
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Q98 [人类学];
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030303 ;
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In southeastern Ghana, among Anlo-Ewe-speaking people, a five-senses model (of sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell) has little relevance for theorizing about how we know what we know. Instead, Anlo people invoke a domain of experience called seselelame (literally 'feel-feel-at-flesh-inside') that links sensation to emotion, disposition, and vocation. This article explores cultural models that govern sensory and other immediate bodily experiences in Anlo-Ewe worlds. Language analysis is inter-woven with cultural interpretations of walking and talking, and attention is given to child socialization strategies that kinesthetically instantiate Anlo-Ewe moral codes.
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页码:178 / 198
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