{"product_id":"culture-and-the-senses-9780520234567","title":"Culture and the Senses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvestigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. This book relates how Anlo society privileges and elaborates what we would call kinesthesia, which most Americans would not even identify as a sense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Orthography Map of Southeastern Ghana  INTRODUCTION. Cultural Construction of Sensoriums and Sensibilities 1. Is There a Sixth Sense? 2. Anlo-Land and Anlo-Ewe People  PART ONE. Conceptualizing Sensory Orientations in Anlo-Land 3. Language and Sensory Orientations  PART TWO. Moral Embodiment and Sensory Socialization 4. Kinesthesia and the Development of Moral Sensibilities 5. Sensory Symbolism in Birth and Infant Care Practices  PART THREE. Person and Identity 6. Toward an Understanding of Anlo Forms of Being-in-the-World 7. Personhood and Ritual Reinforcement of Balance  PART FOUR. Health, Strength, and Sensory Dimensions of Well-Being 8. Anlo Cosmology, the Senses, and Practices of Protection 9. Well-Being, Strength, and Health in Anlo Worlds  CONCLUSION. Ethnography and the Study of Cultural Difference 10. Sensory Experience and Cultural Identity  Notes Glossary Bibliography Index Illustrations","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402817708375,"sku":"9780520234567","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520234567.jpg?v=1730481593","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/culture-and-the-senses-9780520234567","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}