Historically, within anthropology, sport has been perceived as an inconsequential form of entertainment spectacle, seemingly at variance with, and secondary to, broader political and social discourses. An analysis of these four works, however, provides an opportunity to explore shifting representations surrounding issues of culture change and identity production within the anthropology of sport, with an emphasis on three inter-related themes:1. theories and methodologies for representing the intersections between culture change and sport; 2. historical shifts in modes of representation and writing within anthropological sports studies, and 3. representations of identities within sport.

Acting reflexively implies a “self-critical and self-conscious stance” (Glass, 2015, p. 555) of recognizing myself within a research process as an intentional participant-practitioner of generating knowledge. This article attempts to reveal visual evidence across a landscape of textual references and material implementations as a process of the what and how of knowing. My aim is to affirm the intentionality of my reflexive praxis as a way of knowing and becoming through committed intertextual inquiry and discovery.

KarenMcGarry is a visual artist and arts educator currently working toward a PhD in Educational Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Research interests embrace reflection/reflexivity and critical pedagogy in teacher education and teacher professional development. Prior experience includes adjunct work in teacher education, secondary level visual art and humanities teaching, and studio practice supporting visual artmaking and exhibiting.Abstract: Literacy is more directly linked to language arts than the visual arts even though both disciplines demand a high level of proficiency knowledge. This article examines how Feldman's (1970) art criticism model, applied in visual arts and aesthetics, and Fairclough's (2015) critical discourse analysis (CDA), used predominantly in literacy research, imbricate to reveal a multitextual literacy approach to gesture as an extension of utterance. Transdisciplinary textual analysis, supported by Bakhtin's theories on addressivity and social language construction (1986), critique both cultural appropriation and media literacy. Gesture, as an extension of utterance, transpired from witnessing a random gestural act, blurring textual boundaries in a decoding process to suggest multiliterate awareness in learning ecologies. Art criticism reflection and CDA reveal methods for examining communication processes within cultural contexts and, as a result, suggest integration into educational settings as vital tools for conscientious textual decoding praxis. Multitextual Literacy in Educational Settings 482As a part of communication, a gesture extends a visual or verbal text toward a multimodal message that often assists in completing a thought, a sentence, or an action.

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