Sensuous stories in the Indian Ocean islands

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4773552
AutoresRosabelle Boswell (0000-0001-7099-7713, Nelson Mandela University, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume12
Fascículo2
Páginas193-208
Data de publicação2017-05-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Senses and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17458927.2017.1319603
OpenAlexW2625329698
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas32

Providing examples from the islands of the Indian Ocean Region, this article focuses on the multisensory nature of storytelling and listening. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in the region (1998-2016), the author proposes a sensuous epistemology that turns on listening to “sense”. She reveals that storytelling can be a profoundly sensuous experience that elicits emotional and physical responses in both the teller and listener. The sensuous quality of stories enable the listener to fully encounter politically inscribed, complex social experiences. Ultimately, the article advances a notion of listening as sense-work, thereby deepening sensory scholarship’s recent, politically reflexive analysis on listening to hear

Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Inscribed figure · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Reflexivity · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Storytelling · Communication · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Marine animal studies overview · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies