Sensuous Scholarship

Contents

Acknowledgments Prologue: The Scholar's Body Part One: Embodied Practices Introduction: The Way of the Body 1. The Sorcerer's Body 2. l'he Griot's Tongue Part Two: Body and Memory Introduction: The Texture of Memory 3. Embodying Colonial Memories 4. "Conscious" Ain't Consciousness: Entering the Museum of Sensory Absence Part Three: Embodied Representations Introduction: Embodying the Grammar 5. Spaces, Places, and Fields: The Politics of West African Trading in New York City's Informal Economy 6. Artaud, Rouch, and the Cinema of Cruelty Epilogue: Sensuous Ways of Knowing/Living vii IX 1 3 4 24 45 47 48 74 89 91 93 119 135 vi Contents Notes Works Cited Films Cited Index 139 149 161 163 ...