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BL
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991841
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b746211
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| Main Entry
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Geurts, Kathryn Linn,1960-
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| Title & Author
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Culture and the senses : : bodily ways of knowing in an African community /\ Kathryn Linn Geurts.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2002.
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| Series Statement
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Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;; 3
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1 online resource (xvi, 315 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0520234553
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: 0520234561
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: 9780520234550
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: 9780520234567
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: 9780520936546
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: 9780585466293
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0520234553
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0520234561
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-307) and index.
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| Contents
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Is there a sixth sense? -- Anlo-land and Anlo-Ewe people -- Language and sensory orientations -- Kinesthesia and the development of moral sensibilities -- Sensory symbolism in birth and infant care practices -- Toward an understanding of Anlo forms of being-in-the-world -- Personhood and ritual reinforcement of balance -- Anlo cosmology, the senses, and practices of protection -- Well-being, strength, and health in Anlo worlds -- Sensory experience and cultural identity.
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| Abstract
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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 as in literal and metaphorical ways) is an essential component of what it means to be human.
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Anlo (African people)-- Psychology.
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Anlo (African people)-- Socialization.
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Senses and sensation, Cross-cultural studies.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Ethnopsychology.
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Senses and sensation
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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Anlo (volk)
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Psychologie.
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Socialisatie (sociale wetenschappen)
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Zintuigen.
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Ghana.
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| Dewey Classification
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155.8/4963374
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| LC Classification
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DT510.43.A58G48 2002eb
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| NLM classification
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CP 2000rvk
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