Kathryn Geurts
Associate Professor of Anthropology

Degrees

B.A. 1984 Sarah Lawrence College
M.A. 1991 University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. 1998 University of Pennsylvania

 
Publications

Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Berkeley: University of California Press (2002).
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Sir Ken Robinson speaks about Kathryn's book in Section 5 of His Speech to State of Play:Audio - Video

“Enduring and Endearing Feelings and the Transformation of Material Culture in West Africa” in Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture ed. Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden, and Ruth Phillips.  Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers (2006).

“Consciousness as ‘Feeling in the Body’: A West African Theory of Embodiment, Emotion and the Making of Mind” in Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader ed. David Howes. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers (2005).

“Even Boxers Carry Mace: A Comment on Relationality in Loic Wacquant’s Body and Soul” in Qualitative Sociology Vol. 28, no. 2 (2005): 143-149.

“On Embodied Consciousness in Anlo-Ewe Worlds: A Cultural Phenomenology of the Fetal Position” in Ethnography Vol. 4, no. 3 (2003): 363-395.

“On Rocks, Walks, and Talks in West Africa: Cultural Categories and an Anthropology of the Senses” in Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology Vol. 30, no. 3 (2003): 178-198.

“Childbirth and Pragmatic Midwifery in Rural Ghana” in Medical Anthropology Vol. 20 (2001): 379-408.