{"product_id":"senuous-scholarship-paperback","title":"Senuous Scholarship - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Stoller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the Songhay of Mali and Niger, who consider the stomach the seat of personality, learning is understood not in terms of mental activity but in bodily terms. Songhay bards study history by \"eating the words of the ancestors,\" and sorcerers learn their art by ingesting particular substances, by testing their flesh with knives, by mastering pain and illness. In \u003ci\u003eSensuous Scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e Paul Stoller challenges contemporary social theorists and cultural critics who--using the notion of embodiment to critique Eurocentric and phallocentric predispositions in scholarly thought--consider the body primarily as a text that can be read and analyzed. Stoller argues that this attitude is in itself Eurocentric and is particularly inappropriate for anthropologists, who often work in societies in which the notion of text, and textual interpretation, is foreign. Throughout \u003ci\u003eSensuous Scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e Stoller argues for the importance of understanding the \"sensuous epistemologies\" of many non-Western societies so that we can better understand the societies themselves and what their epistemologies have to teach us about human experience in general. \u003cb\u003ePaul Stoller\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthroopology at West Chester University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Stoller is Professor of Anthroopology at West Chester University and the author of The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722594193471,"sku":"9780812216158","price":48.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8cabd580b6b103b21fbb5fd9c2be356e.webp?v=1765096280","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/senuous-scholarship-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}