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11th SIEF Congress in Tartu, Estonia
30th June – 4th July 2013.
Panel:
Sensory Knowledge and its circulation (P36)
Convenors:
Elisa Rieger (University of Graz)
Lydia Maria Arantes (University of Graz)
Please make your paper submission via the online form until 18th of January
2013.
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2013/panels.php5?PanelID=1974
*(P36) Sensory knowledge and its circulation*
Short abstract
This panel offers the opportunity to reflect on the role of sensory
perception in accumulating knowledge within ethnographic fieldwork,
focusing on how humans - in the research process as well as in everyday
life - gather and circulate sensory knowledge.
Long Abstract
This panel proposal takes the conference call as an opportunity to reflect
on the role of sensory perception in accumulating knowledge within
ethnographic fieldwork. Assuming that circulations of sensory knowledge -
in the process of research as well as in everyday life - require a
preceding process of gathering experiences before they can be articulated,
this panel asks especially about the ways sensory knowledge is described,
shared and passed on. The role of the body in this regard is not merely one
of being a tool of the mind much rather being a source of knowledge itself
(Pink 2009). As the ethnographer completely immerses into the field
studied, an integral approach to ethnographic practice therefore not only
needs to give voice to sensory perception but also to the knowledge
obtained from that.
We particularly invite authors to contribute to our panel who reflect on
the role of sensory perception in their research on sociocultural practices
as varied as dancing, crafting or meditating, etc. How does the body come
to know and how can this knowledge be shared and passed on? Moreover, we
welcome papers which discuss how disruptions of already known ways of
perception are dealt with. Which role does trial-and-error learning play
and what are its consequences for passing on embodied knowledge? Can
patterns of knowledge circulation be identified? Finally, which
methodological implications arise from addressing sensory knowledge in
ethnographic practice? And where are the limitations of this kind of
methodological approach?
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Mag. phil. Lydia Maria Arantes*
Department of European Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
University of Graz
Attemsgasse 25/I, 8010 Graz
Austria *
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+43 316 380 8262
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www.uni-graz.at/lydia.arantes
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