As an artist, does your work have anything to do with synesthesia, or art cognition?
Does it exist in Brazil as in Europe a tradition of metaphorical synesthesia, like in the so-called symbolist poetry (Baudelaire, Rimbaud) or in the novel (Huysmans) or later in the Dutch poetry?
Do you have any recommendations of ethnologic studies, I mean ethnologists who really studied synesthesia as metaphor or as neurological phenomenon in Amazonian tribes.
I used to work a little bit on Narby hypothesis and Narby effect. Do exist special reports written by ethnologists on relations between ayahuasca and synesthetic impressions, apart from Classen?
HPL
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Mein GlückSeit ich des Suchens müde ward,Erlernte ich das Finden.Seit mir ein Wind hielt Widerpart,Segl' ich mit allen Winden.Ashita wa ashita no kazé ga fuku> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:38:17 -0200> From: sbasbaum@gmail.com> To: yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr> Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] from Hervé-Pierre Lambert> > Dear Hervé-Pierre,> > Thank you very much for quoting my article. When we write, we never know who> will read, so we always get surprised when we realize people do read what we> write. Indeed, I have been working on some ideas on synesthesia and culture,> and in the last meeting in Hamilton a definetely felt that some kind of> approach which takes into account the question of culture is needed.> > How could somebody talk experiment grapheme-colour synesthesia in a> pre-literate society, for example? These and other questions have led me to> draft sometings on this topic on the last months.> > The overstressing of vision, the "imperialism" of the eye, on our culture> could be suggested to be in a certain way "colonizing" the other senses, as> to the point of, for some people, emerge as an experience. But this are just> intuitions by now.> > On the other hand, I like very much Van Campen's notion of synesthesia being> something "in between". This dialogues very well with the notion that> synesthesia is deeply related to contemporary technological culture, in> which all strictly disciplinary thinking seems to be unable to deal with a> lerger understanding of life and meaning.> > all the best from Brazil,> > s.> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:24 AM, herve pierre lambert <hplambert@hotmail.com> > wrote:> > >> >> > On the internet, there is an interesting article easy to encounter, written> > by Sergio Roclaw Basbaum, "Consciousness and Perception: The Point of> > Experience and the Meaning of the World We Inhabit". He claims that "> > consciousness is aculturally shaped phenomena, and that any conception that> > may emerge about it from a traditional Western scientific approach cannot go> > further than suggest a model of consciousness that, at best, can correspond> > to the experience of consciousness in the culture in which this very> > specific way of dealing with reality is embedded."> >> > The anthropological dimension of synesthesia - as a metaphor or as> > neurological phenomenon- is usually avoided or forgotten. Van Campen> > alluded to this reality in "Synthetic Indians" with a commentary on the book> > World of sense by Constance Classen. Basbaum developed this idea of a> > synesthesia phenomenon conditioned by culture in a philosophical reflexion> > using references to Classen and Flusser. The last year I had told that we> > needed informations on synesthesia in the different cultures of the> > multicultural Mediterranean world. The emergency of an anthropology focused> > in the sensory worlds of different cultures enabled to put into perspective> > the western association between seeing and meaning. Quotation from the same> > article by Basbaum:> >> > "Different cultures emphasis in other senses gives birth to cosmologies> > based, for example:> > - in thermal sensations, like the Tzotzil's of Chiapas, Mexico;> > - in olfactory sensations, like the Ongee's of Little Andaman Island, in> > Bengal Bay;> > - in a highly synesthetic cosmology, like the Desana's of Amazon, which> > make meaning of their world based on multisensory correspondences> > experimented under hallucinogenic plants trance; (Classen, 1993: Chapter 6)> > - in such an emphasis on aural experience, like the Kaluli people of> > Bosavi, as to "reckon time and space by reference to auditory cues and> > entertain a fundamentally acoustic view of the structure of their physical> > and social universe." (Howes, 2003:xvii)> > These radically different sensorial arrangements (and there are many> > more), the meanings they ascribe to the world and the ways of dealing with> > life that emerge from them, make reasonable for us to talk not anymore about> > a "point of view", typical of Western culture, but of a "point of> > experience", the kind of hierarchy of the sensorium that structures> > experiences and cosmologies in different cultures."> >> > Hervé-Pierre Lambert> >> >> > Mein GlückSeit ich des Suchens müde ward,Erlernte ich das Finden.Seit mir> > ein Wind hielt Widerpart,Segl' ich mit allen Winden.Ashita wa ashita no kazé> > ga fuku> > _________________________________________________________________> > Inédit ! Des Emoticônes Déjantées! 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