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ISBN: 0812216156

ISBN13: 9780812216158

Senuous Scholarship

(Part of the Contemporary Ethnography Series)

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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.

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