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Culture, Embodiment and the Senses

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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Culture, Embodiment, and the Senses will provide an historical and cross-cultural analysis of the politics of sensory experience. The subject will address western philosophical debates about mind, brain, emotion, and the body and the historical value placed upon sight, reason, and rationality, versus smell, taste, and touch as acceptable mo

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Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora

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This course provides an exploration of colonial and postcolonial clashes between theories of healing and embodiment in the African world and those of western bio-medicine. It examines how Afro-Atlantic religious traditions have challenged western conceptions of illness, healing, and the body and have also offered alternative notions of mora

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File: 21a-460j-spring-2005.zip

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File: 21a460srt_pap3_5.pdf

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