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Social Anthropology Seminar - The experience of the Bush : Hunters and social aesthetics in Burkina Faso

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Dates:28 September 2015
Times:16:00 - 18:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
Speaker:Lorenzo Ferrarini
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Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 28 September 2015 4:15-6:00pm (Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm) Lorenzo Ferrarini, University of Manchester

The experience of the Bush : Hunters and social aesthetics in Burkina Faso

This paper deals with the role of sensory experience for the initiated donso hunters of Western Burkina Faso. It is an enquiry into their perceptual skills and suggests that these form the conditions for the donso to relate in a specific way to their environment, and have a role in their social formation. This subject also raises important methodological questions: what kind of access can ethnographers have to people’s embodied experience? What is the role of enskilment and apprenticeship versus the verbal transmission of information? What are the limits of a sensory ethnography? I propose answers based on the one hand on my practice of hunting among the donso, and on the other on an ecological approach to perception.

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Lorenzo Ferrarini

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