Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community
by Kathryn Linn Geurts, Prof. Kathryn Geurts
Culture and the Senses explores how bodily experience and sensory perception shape ways of knowing within an African community. Drawing on anthropology and cultural studies, Kathryn Linn Geurts examines the connections between embodiment, culture, and understanding, offering readers a thoughtful perspective on how knowledge is lived as well as learned.
About This Book
Culture and the Senses examines the relationship between culture, sensory experience, and knowledge.
Focusing on bodily ways of knowing in an African community, the book considers how understanding can be formed through lived, embodied experience.
Kathryn Linn Geurts offers a focused contribution to anthropological and cultural studies of perception, embodiment, and community life.
The book will interest readers exploring how people experience and interpret the world through their senses and bodies.
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