Sensory Anthropology PDF Download

Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Theory and theatre -- Re-enacting -- Memorising -- Observing -- Knowing -- Representing -- Listening -- Analysing -- Collaborating -- From acting to anthropology -- Note -- Chapter 1: Researching films we live by : Tribute to Dieudonné Niangouna -- Que sera, sera -- Research paradigms and perception -- Collaborative research -- Film scenes as metaphors -- Changes of research paradigms -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Researching sensory memories : Tribute to Walter Lott -- Learning sense memory -- The chair relaxation exercise: a reduction of activities in the prefrontal cortex -- The coffee-cup exercise: a discovery of the implicit neural circuitry -- The bad news exercise: using the stimulus and response procedure -- Teaching sense memory -- Adapting sense memory exercises to academic contexts -- Multisensorial training -- A la recherche du temps perdu -- Feedback -- Sense memory in seminars -- Application areas: sense memory in anthropological research -- Introspection versus observation -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Researching Being Present: Tribute to a Siberian tiger -- An education of attention guided by a Siberian tiger -- Abstaining from thinking ahead -- Altered states of consciousness -- What 'higher' cognitive functions hinder -- Beyond species boundaries -- Mimesis beyond culture -- Acting: neuroscience-anthropology -- Knowledge of the world: being-in-the-world -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Researching urban rhythms: Tribute to Emil Abossolo Mbo -- Methodological problems of rhythmanalysis -- Submission to rhythms imposed by others -- Cosmopolitan skills -- North-South power relations and epistemological hierarchies -- Notes.