Arensberg and Kimball and Anthropological Research in Ireland

Byrne, Anne; Edmondson, Ricca; Varley, Tony

doi:10.7227/ijs.23.1.3

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“…In all that song and story, my imagination soared. This was the Ireland famously "discovered" by the United States anthropologists Arensberg and Kimball (1940), and contested in subsequent Irish social research (see Byrne, Edmondson, & Varley 2001).…”

Section: Myths and Their Interruption(s)mentioning

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Dry Stone Walls, Black Stumps and the Mobilisation of Professional Learning: Rural Places and Spaces and Teachers’ Self-Study Strategies in Ireland and Australia

Kenny

Harreveld

Danaher

2016

Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices

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In very different ways, dry stone walls and black stumps evoke sets of images and meanings ascribed to living in the rural areas of Ireland and Australia respectively. For the purposes of this chapter, they highlight as well the challenges and opportunities in professional learning encountered by teachers working in rural educational settings. To be successful, these teachers need to engage in effective self-study calibrated to the distinctive contexts of theirwork. Yet we argue that self-study must also take account of the politicised character of the places and spaces of current rural life. Throughout, our purpose is to examine how this then speaks back to a teacher education constituency against the backdrop of wider socioeconomic developments helping to frame the work of teachers and teacher educators in both countries.Deploying a comparative, exploratory case study research design, the chapter analyzes selected critical self-reflections of teachers in rural educational settings in Ireland and Australia. Data are generated through the three authors' collaborative autoethnographic accounts of their own respective rural teaching experiences. The analysis is framed by the French theorist Michel de Certeau's enduringly significant distinction between places and spaces. The key finding is both the need for, and the potential diversity of, rural teachers' successful self-study strategies if their professional learning is to be sustainable and possibly transformative for themselves, their students and their communities.

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Section: Myths and Their Interruption(s)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Dry Stone Walls, Black Stumps and the Mobilisation of Professional Learning: Rural Places and Spaces and Teachers’ Self-Study Strategies in Ireland and Australia

Kenny

Harreveld

Danaher

2016

Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices

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“…When Arensberg and Kimball arrived less than a decade later in 1932, the Free State's citizens were facing politically, socially, and economically uncertain and volatile times (Byrne et al ; Kissane ). The Great Depression made economic possibilities for the predominantly rural population grim, and the possibility of a renewed civil war between competing political factions that supported newly elected antitreaty leader Eamon de Valera and the IRA loomed large.…”

Section: Colonialism Independence and Civil War In Irelandmentioning

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“…Indeed, it was the dynamic and polemic de Valera himself who provided an official letter of support for the Harvard researchers in Clare on behalf of the Free State government (Byrne et al ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Arensberg was joined by fellow Harvard graduate student Solon T. Kimball (1909–82) for his doctoral fieldwork in the summer of 1933. Kimball stayed on until May 1934 (Byrne et al ). Both projects were directed by W. Lloyd Warner.…”

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“…Although Arensberg's ([1937]) and Kimball's (1940) structural‐functionalist ethnographies stress solidarity, cooperation, and maintenance of community cohesion in rural western Ireland (Byrne et al ; Peace ; Wilson , ; Wilson and Donnan ), my analysis of their unpublished field notes, interviews, correspondence, and primary textual data suggests an additional representation of local social life. More specifically, it shows enduring political conflict and the persistence of extrajudicial violence in County Clare during the new democratic era of the Irish Free State.…”

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Ethnography and “Postconflict” Violence in the Irish Free State

French

2013

American Anthropologist

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Here I offer a reengagement with Conrad Arensberg and Solon Kimball's (Arensberg 1968[1937;Arensberg and Kimball 1940) canonical ethnographies of rural western Ireland along with a new consideration of data the ethnographers never analyzed in their publications. I argue that epistemological debates and commitments in U.S. anthropology fueled Arensberg and Kimball's structural-functionalist orientation because of the ways this theory became emblematic of a scientific, value-free perspective to which these scholars were committed in ways that precluded analysis of state governmentality and violence. The new analysis of Arensberg and Kimball's unpublished ethnographic materials shows how local social life was shaped by the persistence of political violence in the "postconflict" democratic Irish Free State well after the war was officially over. I focus particularly on the nascent district court system to show how the judiciary and its participants were key agents in establishing and contesting the legitimacy of the postwar political system. [history of anthropology, postconflict states, Ireland, vigilantism, courts] RESUMEN Aquí ofrezco una reexanimación de las etnografías canónicas de Irlanda rural de Conrad Arensberg y Solon Kimball junto con una nueva consideración de algunos datos que ellos nunca analizaron. Se discute que los debates epistemológicos y compromisos en antropología estadounidense manejaron la orientación de Arensberg y Kimball porque el marco teorético, estructura-funcionalismo, se hizo emblemática de una perspectiva científica objetiva al cual se dedicaron ellos en una manera que impidió un análisis de la violencia y la gobermentalidad del estado. En el análisis nuevo de sus materiales etnográficos, muestro como la vida local se formó por la perseverancia de violencia política en el "postconflicto" democrático Estado Libre Irlandés después de que se terminó oficialmente la guerra. El argumento se basa en un enfoque del sistema de cortes para enseñar como la magistratura y su participantes eran agentes claves en establecer y contestar la legitimidad del sistema político post-guerra. [historia de antropología, estados postconflictos, Irlanda, vigilantismo, cortes]

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Partnership, Parenthood and Beyond: Between Traditional and Progressive Ways of Doing Polish Family in Ireland

Wolniak

2024

Polish Families in Ireland

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Arensberg and Kimball and Anthropological Research in Ireland

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

Dry Stone Walls, Black Stumps and the Mobilisation of Professional Learning: Rural Places and Spaces and Teachers’ Self-Study Strategies in Ireland and Australia

Dry Stone Walls, Black Stumps and the Mobilisation of Professional Learning: Rural Places and Spaces and Teachers’ Self-Study Strategies in Ireland and Australia

Ethnography and “Postconflict” Violence in the Irish Free State

Partnership, Parenthood and Beyond: Between Traditional and Progressive Ways of Doing Polish Family in Ireland

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