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Ch3. Interpreting Africa’s Seselelãme: Bodily Ways of Knowing in a Globalized World

by Kathryn Linn Geurts and Sefakor Komabu-Pomeyie – This chapter problematizes some of the ways in which seselelãme is being used in Global North contexts (including as a quick fix to the mind–body problem) and then revisits how Ghanaian people themselves narrate bodily ways of knowing. Taking a psycho-socio-cultural approach, the authors align seselelãme with a modal (compared to categorical) way of understanding and being