The taste of ethnographic things : the senses in anthropology /
Anthropologists who have lost their senses write ethnographies that are often disconnected from the worlds they seek to portray. For most anthropologists, Stoller contends, tasteless theories are more important than the savory sauces of ethnographic life. That they have lost the smells, sounds, and...
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| Taal: | Engels |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©1989.
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| Reeks: | Contemporary ethnography series.
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhjx9 |
Inhoudsopgave:
- Introduction: A return to the senses
- pt. I. Tastes in anthropology: The taste of ethnographic things
- pt. II. Visions in the field: Eye, mind, and word in anthropology
- "Gazing" at the space of Songhay politics
- Signs in the social order: Riding a Songhay bush taxi
- Son of Rouch: Songhay visions of the other
- pt. III. Sounds in cultural experience: Sound in Songhay possession
- Sound in Songhay sorcery
- pt. IV. The senses in anthropology: The reconstruction of ethnography
- Detours.