The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology

by Paul Stoller

Book Overview

Anthropologists who have lost their senses write ethnographies that are often disconnected from the worlds they seek to portray. For most anthropologists, Stoller contends, tasteless theories are more important than the savory sauces of ethnographic life. That they have lost the smells, sounds, and tastes of the places they study is unfortunate for them, for their subjects, and for the discipline itself.

The Taste of Ethnographic Things...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812212924
• ISBN13: 9780812212921
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.5"