On Presence

Rethmann, Petra

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“…It is important to point out that these presences are not ghosts as metaphors for fright or warning; they are, more than anything, "the sense of presence of those who are not physically there" (Bell, 1997); they are the resonant frequencies of memory, history, and imagination (Rethmann, 2007). These presences are not simply the nonphysical aspects of humanness; they are unique and polyvocal manifestations of the passage of people through time and space and the accumulation of their cultural leavings.…”

Section: The Practice Of Everyday Afterlivesmentioning

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“…Here, in the spaces of abandonment, my ghost memories are fluid; they move in flows, and they rest in the quiet corners of forgotten prairie dreaming. In order to study these shifting resonances, the would-be spectral ethnographer should work to anchor him or herself in the moment as much as possible and to allow the presence of ghost texts and their associated stories to emerge from the act of ethnographic being-in space and time (Rethmann, 2007). Here, the empty spaces of culture become the primary location of cultural critique.…”

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On the Possibility of Spectral Ethnography

Armstrong

2010

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This article reflects on the possibility of engaging in a kind of ethnography of absence, an anthropology of people, and places and things that have been removed, deleted, and abandoned to the flows of time and space. Here, the author suggests a mode of ethnographic inquiry that performs an archaeology of the emptied present and of the vacant spaces of culture. Using recent ethnographic fieldwork in the North American High Plains as the basis of his analysis, the author seeks to reimagine his own ethnographic practices in the context of these hollowed-out and spectrally resonant spaces of culture. What significance can be drawn from the multiple layers of time and materiality that have accumulated in these places and what type of haunted narratives can emerge from the discarded remnants of human occupation? How can ethnography excavate the lives-once-lived from the space of abandonment?

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Section: The Practice Of Everyday Afterlivesmentioning

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On the Possibility of Spectral Ethnography

Armstrong

2010

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Maskens

Blanes

2013

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

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In this article we propose to engage anthropology as a romanticist discipline. Revisiting particular histories, we depict the anthropological discipline and its core method (ethnography) as imbued with sensibilities and militancies that define it as a "romantic subversion," an against-the-grain attitude against intellectual hegemonies and conformisms. We do so by focusing on three points: the charting of a romanticist conceptual agenda in anthropology; the analysis of ethnographic intersubjectivity and personal transformation as romantic heroisms; and the discussion of a counterhegemonic militant anthropology. We speculate about an anthropological ethos that is inherently subversive and "quixotic," following the inspiration of Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel.

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La cérémonie du calumet ou l’ethnographie d’une expérience extraordinaire au sein de Notcimik (l’univers forestier des Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok, Québec)

Éthier

2021

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Cet article discute de l’apport des travaux de Jean-Guy Goulet dans les réflexions de l’auteur et dans ses façons d’aborder le terrain ethnographique. Il souligne notamment la pertinence des expériences oniriques du chercheur et des enseignements transmis par Notcimik, l’univers forestier des Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok, dans les matériaux ethnographiques. La réflexion est articulée ici autour d’une ethnographie d’une expérience personnelle vécue dans des relations sociales profitables ayant permis de mieux vivre et saisir certains principes, pratiques et savoirs des Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok. L’expérience ethnographique décrite dans cet article rejoint ce que Goulet (2007) décrit comme une « anthropologie extraordinaire », c’est-à-dire un engagement du chercheur dans des façons radicalement différentes de comprendre et d’habiter la réalité.

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On Presence

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On the Possibility of Spectral Ethnography

On the Possibility of Spectral Ethnography

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La cérémonie du calumet ou l’ethnographie d’une expérience extraordinaire au sein de Notcimik (l’univers forestier des Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok, Québec)

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