Sensuous Scholarship.
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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
1997.
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Series: | Contemporary ethnography.
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