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I'm pleased to announce the latest issue of the Anthropology Matters Journal. Take a look, and please forward this on to anyone who you think might be interested!
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Ingie
LATEST ISSUE OF THE
ANTHROPOLOGY MATTERS JOURNAL
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Anthropology Matters Journal, 2006, Vol 8 (2)
FROM PLAY TO KNOWLEDGE:
A WORKSHOP ON ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODOLOGY
http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2006-2/index.htm
Guest editors on this issue: Susanne Langer and Emily Walmsley
The latest issue of the Anthropoloy Matters Journal explores the intersections between fieldwork and field-play, interaction and knowledge. The five article authors have all spent some serious time playing in the field – with children and youth, musicians and mountaineers – and here they describe the messy process of converting these moments into anthropological theses. Take a look at:
http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2006-2/index.htm
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial:
“From play to knowledge: a workshop on ethnographic methodology” (by Susanne Langer, Cardiff University; Emily Walmsley, Keele University; Hannah Knox, University of Manchester; and Mattia Fumanti, University of Manchester).
Jonathan McIntosh (Queen’s University Belfast):
“How dancing, singing and playing shape the ethnographer: research with children in a Balinese dance studio”
In this article I contribute to the debate on research methods in ethnomusicology. To do this I illustrate how active engagement in the activities and learning processes of children better enables the ethnographer to gain insights into children’s musical worlds. This is borne out of my research concerning children’s practice and performance of dance, music and song in South-central Bali.
Lucy Atkinson (University of Edinburgh):
“From play to knowledge: from visual to verbal?”
This article relates my experiences using playful child-centred research techniques whilst undertaking research with Congolese refugee children in Zambia. Such techniques generate rich and varied information, and often in unexpected ways. They also create a format whereby the researcher and the children can interact and form relationships outside the usual social relationships of adult and child, researcher and informant.
Brett Lashua (Cardiff University):
“The arts of the remix: ethnography and rap”
In this paper I take note of ‘the arts of the remix’, in which techniques of producing hip-hop music with First Nations young people in Canada involved remixing both music and research practices. Through a school-based leisure programme called The Beat of Boyle Street, I taught Aboriginal young people to use computers and audio software to make, produce, and record their own hip-hop music.
Will Gibson (Institute of Education, London):
“Playing in the field: participant observation and the investigation of intersubjective knowledge in jazz improvisation”
This paper investigates the use of intersubjective knowledge in the production of improvised jazz performance. I describe an approach to participant observation in which recordings of the researcher and research participants improvising musical performances together were used as ‘texts’ for framing discussions.
Katrín Lund (University of Iceland):
“Making mountains, producing narratives, or: ‘One day some poor sod will write their Ph.D. on this’”
This paper looks at ways of narrating mountaineering experiences in Scotland. I shall examine how mountaineers organise and abstract their experiences in the form of lists, logbooks, photographs and drawings, and compare to the official listing of Scotland’s topography. My argument is that when storing experiences in various material forms, mountaineers are creating their own personal topographies.
ABOUT ANTHROPOLOGY MATTERS
Anthropology Matters is the postgraduate and early-career arm of the Association of Social Anthropologists in the UK and Commonwealth (the ASA). Anthropology Matters runs a website (www.anthropologymatters.com), an open email list and an online journal.
The Anthropology Matters Journal aims to promote innovative perspectives, critical reflection and questioning of established anthropological boundaries. We encourage submissions from PhD students and early-career anthropologists. If you would like to submit a paper, please contact the editor, Ingie Hovland ([log in to unmask])
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