Sensuous stories in the Indian Ocean islands

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4773552
AutoresRosabelle Boswell (0000-0001-7099-7713, Nelson Mandela University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen12
Número2
Páginas193-208
Fecha de publicación2017-05-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Senses and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17458927.2017.1319603
OpenAlexW2625329698
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias 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