Senuous Scholarship

by Paul Stoller

Book Overview

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 substances, by testing their flesh with knives, by mastering pain and illness.

In Sensuous Scholarship Paul Stoller challenges contemporary social theorists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812216156
• ISBN13: 9780812216158
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"