Senuous Scholarship by Paul Stoller

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nonfiction philosophy sociology informative medium-paced
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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 le...

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