sensuous scholarship

is a kind of writing which abandons dry academic writing and privileges filmic or narrative images: The smells, the tastes, the sounds, the colors.

or what he calls 'the taste for ethnographic things.' The idea is that by giving attention to sensual aspects of the field ethnographies we render our accounts of others more faithful to the realities of the field accounts which will then be more, rahter than less, scientific' (1989: 9). 'filmic or narrative images: the smells, the tastes, the sounds, the colors lyrical and unsettling of the land. (1989: 156). 'the taste of ethnographic things.' (in Kulick and Willson Taboo 129)

sensuous scholarship, n.Definitions

sensuous scholarship