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Sensuous Ethnography, African Persuasions, and Social Knowledge

West Chester University

This article suggests that transnational complexities require a more sensuous approach to ethnography, an approach in which local epistemologies and sensory regimes are more fully explored. More specific, the purpose of this article is to suggest that sensuous descriptions improve not only the clarity and force of ethnographic representations but also the social analysis of power relations-in-the-world. African states, as the author attempts to demonstrate, have been particularly adept at manipulating sensory regimes to establish and reinforce their power. In the end, the author concludes that a fully sensuous scholarship not only propels social scientists to reconsider the analysis of power-in-the-world but also compels them to rethink their scholarly being-in-the-world.

Key Words: epistemology • historiography • ethnography • Africa • social theory

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