Title The taste of ethnographic things : the senses in anthropology / Paul Stoller

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 182 pages) : illustrations Series Contemporary ethnography series Contemporary ethnography series. Contents 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 Summary 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 tastes of the places they study is unfortunate for them, for their subjects, and for the discipline itself.The Taste of Ethnographic Things describes how, through long-term participation in the lives of the Songhay of Niger, Stoller eventually came to his senses. Taken together, the separate chapters speak to two important and integrated issues. The first is methodological--all the chapters demonstrate the rewards of long-term study of a culture. The second issue is how he became truer to the Songhay through increased sensual awareness Analysis Fieldwork Ethnology Cross-cultural Sensations Senses Sorcery Spirit possession Signs Social order Politics Anthropology Cultural Experience Sounds Visions Taste Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-177) and index Filmography: page 178 Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL This edition in English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Songhai (African people) Senses and sensation -- Cross-cultural studies Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Niger Senses and sensation -- Cross-cultural studies SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. Ethnology -- Fieldwork Senses and sensation Songhai (African people) Ethnologie Feldforschung Wahrnehmung Culturele antropologie. Songhai. Onderzoeksmethoden. Songhaï (peuple d'Afrique) Sens et sensations -- Études transculturelles. Ethnologie -- Niger -- Recherche sur le terrain. Niger Niger -- Moeurs et coutumes. Songhai. Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies Form Electronic book LC no. 89033670 ISBN 0585127379 9780585127378 9780812203141 0812203143 9781283211987 128321198X

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