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Stoller, Paul

The taste of ethnographic things : the senses in anthropology / Paul Stoller - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1989 - xv, 182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Contemporary ethnography series. .

Introduction: A return to the senses --
PART I. Tastes in anthropology: 1. The taste of ethnographic things --
PART II. Visions in the field: 2. Eye, mind, and word in anthropology --
3. "Gazing" at the space of Songhay politics --
4. Signs in the social order: Riding a Songhay bush taxi --
5. Son of Rouch: Songhay visions of the other --PART III. Sounds in cultural experience: 6. Sound in Songhay possession --
7. Sound in Songhay sorcery--PART IV. The senses in anthropology: 8. The reconstruction of ethnography --
9. Detours --
Notes --
References cited --
Films cited --
Index.

ISBN: 9780812212921

Publisher. No.: Raghav Books Private Limited :A-184 Nand Gram Ghaziabad

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social sciences
Culture and institutions
Songhai African people
Senses and sensation -- Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Niger.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
Culturele antropologie.
Sens et sensations -- Études transculturelles.
Senses and sensation -- Cross-cultural studies.

Dewey Class. No.: 306.0966 STO