Dear colleagues,
please consider submitting a paper proposal to the panel we organise at the
next EASA conference in Milan, Italy, 20-23 July. The call will close on 15
February 2015.
Also feel free to share this with colleagues who might be interested.
Doing Ethnography through the Body
<http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4210>
*Convenors*
Lorenzo Ferrarini (University of Manchester)
Nicola Scaldaferri (University of Milano)
*Short Abstract*
In this panel we look at forms of embodied participation by the
ethnographer, such as sharing practical activities, acquiring skills or
starting an apprenticeship, and suggest ways in which these can bring one
of the fundamental legacies of ethnography into the future of
anthropological knowledge.
*Long Abstract*
In this panel we look at forms of embodied participation by the
ethnographer, and suggest ways in which these can bring one of the
fundamental legacies of ethnography into the future of anthropological
knowledge.
Anthropologists have conducted fieldwork through participation in practical
activities since the early days of participant observation. The knowledge
thus acquired informs our insights on the cultures we study, but often ends
up as anecdotal information in the preface to a monograph or footnotes to
an article. We aim to stimulate a reflection on this core aspect of the
ethnographic method and explore the distinct knowledge it can generate.
Drawing inspiration from the works of Jackson, Stoller, Wacquant and
others, with this panel we ask what can be gained and what can be at risk
when researchers take a radically participating stance towards the
realities they study, sharing practical activities, acquiring skills or
joining in as apprentices. What happens when ethnographers use their body
as a research tool to access the lifeworlds of other people?
We aim to engage in this way debates on epistemology, asking about the
value of knowledge produced through interaction and participation; on
comparativism in anthropology, touching on the problem of relating one's
experience to that of other people; on phenomenological approaches,
underlining the embodied nature of the ethnographic experience; and on
visual and sensory anthropology, inviting a reflection on ways of
representing knowledge beyond text through images and sounds.
*Submit here:*
*http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4210
<http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4210>*
best regards,
Lorenzo Ferrarini
Lecturer in Visual Anthropology
University of Manchester
My new documentary is now available:
<http://www.kalandafilm.com>
Department of Social Anthropology
Arthur Lewis Building - Oxford Road
M13 9PL
United Kingdom
Tel:
UK +44 741 2089657
Italy +39 346 3190548
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