Culture and the senses : bodily ways of knowing in an African community / Kathryn Linn Geurts.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-307) and index.

Is there a sixth sense? -- Anlo-land and Anlo-Ewe people -- Language and sensory orientations -- Kinesthesia and the development of moral sensibilities -- Sensory symbolism in birth and infant care practices -- Toward an understanding of Anlo forms of being-in-the-world -- Personhood and ritual reinforcement of balance -- Anlo cosmology, the senses, and practices of protection -- Well-being, strength, and health in Anlo worlds -- Sensory experience and cultural identity.

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Kathryn Geurts investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. Geurts discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance in Anlo culture, where balance is a sense, and balancing (in a physical and psychological sense as well as in literal and metaphorical ways) is an essential component of what it means to be human.

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