Culture and the Senses
Subtitle: Embodiment, Identity, and Well-Being in an African Community
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 6, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780520234567
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology; Senses and sensation; Cross-cultural studies; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Ghana; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Anlo (African people); Psychology; Socialization
First sentence: In the West, we often treat the domain of sensation and perception as definitively precultural and eminently natural, one of the most basic of the human psychobiological systems.