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Culture and the senses [[electronic resource] ] : bodily ways of knowing in an African community / / Kathryn Linn Geurts
| Culture and the senses [[electronic resource] ] : bodily ways of knowing in an African community / / Kathryn Linn Geurts |
| Autore | Geurts Kathryn Linn <1960-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
| Disciplina | 155.8/4963374 |
| Collana | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity |
| Soggetto topico |
Anlo (African people) - Psychology
Anlo (African people) - Socialization Senses and sensation |
| Soggetto non controllato |
africa
african community anlo culture anlo ewe anlo society anthropologists balance cultural anthropology cultural knowledge cultural meaning cultural perspective cultural traditions demographic studies ethnographers ethnography ghana hearing innate senses inner states metaphorical senses nonfiction perception philosophy physical senses sensorium sensory perception sight smell social cultural social science taste touch |
| ISBN |
1-282-76272-9
9786612762727 1-59734-564-4 0-520-93654-X |
| Classificazione | CP 2000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Orthography -- Map of Southeastern Ghana -- 1. Is There a Sixth Sense? -- 2. Anlo-Land and Anlo-Ewe People -- 3. Language and Sensory Orientations -- 4. Kinesthesia and the Development of Moral Sensibilities -- 5. Sensory Symbolism in Birth and Infant Care Practices -- 6. Toward an Understanding of Anlo Forms of Being-in-the-World -- 7. Personhood and Ritual Reinforcement of Balance -- 8. Anlo Cosmology, the Senses, and Practices of Protection -- 9. Well-Being, Strength, and Health in Anlo Worlds -- 10. Sensory Experience and Cultural Identity -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777338403321 |
Geurts Kathryn Linn <1960->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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Sensory biographies : lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists / / Robert Desjarilais
| Sensory biographies : lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists / / Robert Desjarilais |
| Autore | Desjarlais Robert R |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 396 pages) |
| Disciplina |
294.3/923/09225496
B |
| Collana | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity |
| Soggetto topico |
Lamas - Nepal
Buddhists - Nepal Death - Religious aspects - Buddhism Helambu Sherpa (Nepalese people) - Religion |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Ethnography |
| Soggetto non controllato |
biographical profiles
biographical buddhist priests death and dying death experience ethnographers ethnographic studies gerontology human struggles interviews life and death life histories life journey life stories nepal nonfiction biography physical senses religious figures sensory experiences sociology spiritual subjective experience tibetan buddhists touching vision yolmo buddhists yolmo elders yolmo valley |
| ISBN |
1-59734-893-7
9786612762796 1-282-76279-6 0-520-93674-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration -- Kurāgraphy -- Hardship, Comfort -- Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Vision -- Startled into Alertness -- A Theater of Voices -- "I've Gotten Old" -- Essays on Dying -- "Dying Is This" -- The Painful Between -- Desperation -- The Time of Dying -- Death Envisioned -- To Phungboche, by Force -- Staying Still -- Mirror of Deeds -- Here and There -- "So: Ragged Woman" -- Echoes of a Life -- A Son's Death -- The End of the Body -- Last Words -- Notes -- Glossary of Terms -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782924503321 |
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Desjarlais Robert R
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| Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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