Every ethnographer is painfully aware of the discrepancy between the richness of the lived experience and the paucity of the language used to characterize it (Bruner 1984: 6).

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Every ethnographer is painfully aware of the
discrepancy between the richness of the lived
experience and the paucity of the language used
to characterize it (Bruner 1984 6).
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The Anthropology of the SensesThe taste of
ethnographic things (Paul Stoller 1989)The
Varieties of Sensory Experiences (David Howes
1992) Sensual Relations (David Howes 2003)
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The Taste of Ethnographic Things (Paul Stoller
1989)---Songhay, Niger
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Tamara Kohn (1994)Incomers and Fieldworkers

• Yakha (Tibeto-Burman)
• Tamaphok, East Nepal

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Her questions are

• What are Yakha ideas about the relationship of
  culture and language and do incomers share these
  ideas?
• To what extend do early experiences, feelings,
  and expressions, set the scene for later
  knowledge?

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Stephen Tyler

• The Unspeakable (1988).
• Evocation With evocation, the purpose is to
  cause an entity that is absent to become present
  within a particular space.

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We have learned two notions

• That experience before one learns language is
  important for anthropological knowledge
• That describing sensual and non-verbal
  experience is a very difficult task

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Readings for next weekJack Goody
Representations and ContradictionsHave a
great Thanksgiving Day!