Consciousness as 'Feeling in the Body': A west african theory of embodiment, emotion and the making of mind

Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2021, Pages 164-178

  Geurts, Kathryn Linn ^a  

^a HAMLINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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