الأذن العربية و العين الأمريكية : دراسة في دور الحواس في الثقافة

الملخص EN

The point of departrue of this investigation into the role of the different %rnsr> in different cultures b a 1972 article by the American Folklorist Alan IhindcN titled ’seeing is believing * .

In his article Dnndes argues Ibat the American culture rdies mainly on sight to the almost total exclusion of the other senses.

In the prrseut article Kanaana compares some aspects of Arabic dulture with those of American culture and reaches the conclusion that the Arabic culture, unlike the American relics on the car to the same degree if not even more than the eje.

Kanaana poses this conclusion as a hypothesis for further research on this fascinating and as yet unexplored topic.