The Taste of Ethnographic Things

Moore, Sally Falk; Stoller, Paul

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“…Men inspirasjonen kommer fra radikal empirisme slik det filosofiske begrepet fra James (1890) er videreutviklet i sosialantropologi (Jackson, 1989;Stoller, 1989). Stoller (1989) bygger sine perspektiver fra kapittel til kapittel gjennom fortellinger hvor han selv medvirker i feltsituasjonen. Hver fortelling avsluttes med en refleksjon som også blir innfallsport til neste fortelling.…”

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Aksjonsforskning i Norge: Teoretisk og empirisk mangfold

Gjøtterud¹,

Hiim²,

Husebø³

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Aksjonsforskning i Norge: Teoretisk og empirisk mangfold

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Husebø³

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“…In the 1980s and 1990s, an "anthropology of the senses" was established by the work of Classen (1993Classen ( , 1998, Howes (1991Howes ( , 2003Howes ( , 2005, Stoller (1989Stoller ( , 1997, Feld (1982), and Feld and Basso (1996). Sensory studies have since expanded to include a cultural history of the senses (Classen 1993(Classen , 1998(Classen , 2012, the sensual revolution (Howes 2005), sensuous scholarship (Stoller 1997), sensuous geography (Rodaway 1995), a sociology of the senses (Synnott 1993;Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk 2012), the senses and perception (Ingold 2000), senses of place (Feld and Basso 1996), the sensorium of contemporary arts (Jones 2006), sensory architecture (Malnar and Vodvarka 2004), sensory ethnography (Pink 2004(Pink , 2009, and ways of sensing contemporary society (Howes and Classen 2013) among other studies.…”

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“…Disciplines such as anthropology have joined history, sociology, geography, design, religion, and cultural studies to reveal the extent to which the senses are constructed and lived variously in different cultures, subcultures, and historical periods (Howes 1991(Howes , 2003. Anthropology, in particular, turns our attention away from previous considerations of the senses as biologically determined and universally fixed, to more interactive, adaptable, and fluid concepts of the senses that are continuously shaped by culture, geography, and history (Bendix 2005;Brenneis 2005;Classen 1997;Geurts 2002;Howes 1991Howes , 2003Howes , 2005Hsu 2008;Ingold 2000;Stoller 1989Stoller , 1997Synnott 1991). For sensory anthropologists, the human sensorium, which straddles the divide between mind and body, cognition and sensation, is viewed as a cultural construction that is "socially made and mediated" in interaction (Hsu 2008:433).…”

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The Senses in Anthropological and Marketing Research: Investigating a Consumer-Brand Ritual Holistically

Malefyt¹

2015

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The study of the senses encompasses a range of approaches from the social sciences and humanities. Anthropology, in particular, turns our attention away from previous considerations of the senses as biologically determined and universally fixed, to more interactive, adaptable and fluid concepts of the senses that are continuously shaped by culture, geography and history. Alternately, business marketers increasingly explore the senses and consumer's sensory response to brands as a means of eliciting deeper, more personal experiences with products and services. While anthropologists regard the senses as a form of social interaction, marketers seek to maximize consumer-brand relations by targeting specific sensory responses to consumption. This study integrates both views in an ethnographic investigation of a brand ritual. It examines the sensorial dimensions and symbolic associations of a shaving ritual that foster skills and reformulate time, which inform culturally situated notions of self-presentation and identity. This study advances a more holistic sensory approach to brand rituals as a means of enhancing consumer brand relationships and experiential consumption studies.

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“…We do not see the world and then hear it or smell it or touch it. All our perceptual senses intermingle in our embodied experience and all at once, a position currently being valuably explored in the emerging sub-discipline of sensory anthropology (Classen 1993(Classen , 2005Stoller 1989;Howes 1991Howes , 2005Pink 2009;Ingold 2011). Meinig (1979) invites us to imagine a landscape thus: a group of different people go to the top of a hill and look down and across the panorama of landscape below.…”

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An Anthropology of Landscape

2017

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PrefaceThe research for this book took place from 2008 to 2012. It ran in tandem with an archaeological project involving a fieldwork survey of the entire heathlands, and excavations of multiple sites during the same time period directed by Chris Tilley. It is important to acknowledge this in terms of the discussion of this being a contested landscape. After moving to the area and having decided to visit all the prehistoric cairns, Chris went walking on the heathlands with Tor, his dog. These became walks with a purpose. After seeing all the cairns he decided to walk between them in order to study their relationship to each other and the unique Pebblebed landscape in which they are situated. He quickly became fascinated with the pebbles and how these bright and rounded objects transform what otherwise might appear, to the casual observer, to be a quite monotonous landscape. Realizing that this was unlikely to be just a contemporary appreciation, he then initiated the project. From an archaeologist's perspective he is trying to create a story of the past in the present: a story involving the topography; a story involving the pebbles, the land, the sea, the sky, the sun; and integrate these things into some kind of sense of how it might have been, all the time trying to link past and present. And so the anthropological project investigating the meaning and significance of the contemporary heathland and its pebbles arose. All the research was carried out by Chris and Kate Cameron-Daum. It was very much a collaborative exercise in which both of us were engaged in participant observation and interviews with over one hundred informants. Chris and his family were living in the research area and Kate was staying with them: this had definite advantages in that the field site was quite literally entered when leaving the front door of the house. This permitted sustained engagement with both the heathland landscape and those working there or visiting it throughout the years and in all weathers and seasons. This facilitated, we believe, something of an intimate 'insider's' (the punctuation marks to be emphasized) knowledge of the landscape and the establishment of ongoing personal contacts and relationships. During the course of the archaeological research and the An AnThropology of lAnDsCApe viii viii viii anthropological research discussed here the landscape has become a powerful element in the formation of our own biographies and identities. We both wanted to study anthropology as students because we were interested in the lives of others and how an understanding of them might lead us to reflect on our own lives and experiences. Although the two cannot be separated, we did not choose to study anthropology to learn about the anthropologists conducting the research, their lives, trials and tribulations in the field. We take it as axiomatic that it is from the ethnographic self that accounts arise, that self-reflexivity in research is fundamental and that all our findings are subjective (Clifford and Marcus 1986; Clifford 1...

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The Taste of Ethnographic Things

Cited by 608 publications

References 6 publications

Aksjonsforskning i Norge: Teoretisk og empirisk mangfold

Aksjonsforskning i Norge: Teoretisk og empirisk mangfold

The Senses in Anthropological and Marketing Research: Investigating a Consumer-Brand Ritual Holistically

An Anthropology of Landscape

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