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The Taste of Ethnographic Things : The Senses in Anthropology / Paul Stoller.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary EthnographyPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©1989Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) : 10 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812212921
  • 9780812203141
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.096626
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Return to the Senses -- PART I. Tastes in Anthropology -- PART II. Visions in the Field -- PART III. Sounds in Cultural Experience -- PART IV. The Senses in Anthropology -- Notes -- References Cited -- Films Cited -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Return to the Senses -- PART I. Tastes in Anthropology -- PART II. Visions in the Field -- PART III. Sounds in Cultural Experience -- PART IV. The Senses in Anthropology -- Notes -- References Cited -- Films Cited -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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