Sensuous scholarship /
In Sensuous Scholarship Paul Stoller challenges contemporary social theorists and cultural critics who - using the notion of embodiment to critique both Eurocentric and phallocentric predispositions in scholarly thought - consider the body primarily as a text that can be read and analyzed. He argues...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[1997].
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| Series: | Contemporary ethnography.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The Scholar's Body
- pt. 1: Embodied Practices
- Introduction: The Way of the Body
- The Sorcerer's Body
- The Griot's Tongue
- pt. 2: Body and Memory
- Introduction: The Texture of Memory
- Embodying Colonial Memories
- "Conscious" Ain't Consciousness: Entering the Museum of Sensory Absence
- pt. 3: Embodied Representations
- Introduction: Embodying the Grammar
- Spaces, Places, and Fields: The Politics of West African Trading in New York City's Informal Economy
- Artaud, Rouch, and the Cinema of Cruelty
- Epilogue: Sensuous Ways of Knowing/Living.
