Sensuous Scholarship / / Paul Stoller.

Among 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 subst...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©1997
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Ethnography
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 11 illus.
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Participants: Stoller, Paul. [ ]; ProQuest (Firm) [ ]; ProQuest (Firm) [ TeilnehmendeR ]
Published: c1997.
Superior document: Contemporary ethnography
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