Culture and the senses : bodily ways of knowing in an African community / Kathryn Linn Geurts.

Kathryn Geurts investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. Geurts discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance in Anlo culture, where balance is a sense, and balancing (in a physical and psychological sense as well...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Geurts, Kathryn Linn, 1960-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Series:	Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 3.
Subjects:	Anlo (African people) > Psychology. Anlo (African people) > Socialization. Senses and sensation > Cross-cultural studies. Senses and sensation Cross-cultural studies.