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55 Cards in this Set
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Martin Holbraad |
Ontological Turn What counts as a thing? What has Agency? Powder and Power - Cuban Divination. The powder does not signify or represent, it is power. Hard to approach without taking an emic perspective. |
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Marilyn Strathern |
Ontological Turn What counts as a person? "The problem begins when we begin to produce descriptions of the world" - issue of ethnocentricsm |
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Cruikshank |
Ontological Turn/Agency/Body/Landscape Do Glaciers listen? Glaciers have agency, they are respond to what happens around them. They have gender and interpret history. Tlingit & Athapaskan extend kinship terms to the glaciers. |
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Amerindian Persepective |
Ontological Turn Viveiros de Castro In the forest what is a person? Predator and Prey relationships. Who is the human? Ameridians share a culture with the animals of the Forest. Humanity is a reflective view Animality is an outside view All view themselves as Humans. |
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Cosgrove & Daniels |
Landscape Theory Landscape as a cultural image, it is created by cultures. Cultures are in it. |
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Pre-procesualism Landscape Theory |
Landscape comes from the Dutch, landschap. Reserved for art. Not an anthropological concept. Malinowski used his landscape as a setting. Not an active character in ethnography. |
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Tim Ingold |
Landscape Theory - Dwelling Perspective/Agency Landscapes are not static "Through living in it, landscape becomes part of us as we are part of it" Meshwork theory - the level of actants |
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Norberg-Schulz |
Genius Loci - The spirit of place. Place is a space with character. |
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Marc Auge |
Non Places Theory Highly contested theory of places such as airports being "non-places" having no character but transit. |
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Ethnoscapes |
Tim Ingold The migration of people across borders and cultures. Fluid landscapes as people move so do landscapes |
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Dwelling Perspective |
Tim Ingold - M. Rosaldo Insider knowledge of a place True ethnography and anthropology can only be undertaken from withing an area Language used to describe a place may not be accurate for others. Language can also affect the perception of a place. |
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Sari Wastell |
Ontological Turn (Safets Supervisor, tread carefully here) What counts as justice - Bosnia Who is justice carried out against? |
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Alfred Gell |
Non-Human Agency Agency of Art - does art imitate life or does life imitate art? Perspective of an image - Framing Any Artwork |
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Bruno Latour |
Actor Network Theory Methodology Issue - Implies things are acting equally. |
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Emile Durkhiem |
Agency vs Structure TIME! Structualist approach what time is used for. Different types of time. |
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Pierre Bordieu |
Habitus Society makes the person The person makes society Society is made up of a number of fields; friends, work, school. |
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Whanganui River |
Non-Human Agency/Landscape Theory To the Maori people the Whangari river is a person Recently legally announced as a person. |
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Tree of Gernika |
Example of an Ethnoscape Wherever the tree of Gernika is the Biscayan people are. You can take an acorn from the tree and plant it anywhere to found a new Basque society or town. |
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Agency |
Simell, Bordieu, Coleman. The ability of something to act on society. Intentional - Brings in nonhuman agency Not free will and not resistance |
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Renato Rosaldo |
Emotion/Dwelling Perspective/Ontological Turn Headhunter Peoples Rage - Ilongots, Phillipines Only understanding the feeling of the headhunter rage after the death of his wife. |
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Toraja of Indonesia |
Emotion/Dead-Body Do not recognise anger as an emotion Live with their dead for over a year to deal with grief and make the transition from life to death easier. |
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Emotion |
Massumi - emotion is recognised affect Not synomous with affect Early approaches to emotion involve the bodies relation with expression. Words from cultures about emotion have cultural meaning |
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Lila Abu-Lughod |
Emotion Egyptian Bedouin - Honor and Poetry Politics of sentiment Codes of honour and what is allowed to be expressed. |
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Brian Massumi |
Affect Non-concious sensation. Not fully stated, it is not unconscious. Perspective of the flesh, influence, intensity, impact. |
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Affect |
The capacity to affect and be affected. Embodied in the automatic reaction manifested in the skin on the surface of the body. Not exclusively human. Atmosphere of a place - genius loci. |
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Yael Navaro |
Affect/Landscape/Memory Ruins - What do ruins represent? The aftermath of a war. The choice to keep ruins and it's genius loci. |
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Ann Laura Stoler |
Affect/Landscape Debris of Imperialism. What people are left with. The affect it causes. |
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Marcell Mauss |
Body Bodies are social facts, they are build and effected by societies. |
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Mary Douglas |
Body Bodies are an image of society. Dirt is matter out of place - bodies that are dirt are not in their place. |
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Victor Turner |
Body/Agency Bodies as the visuals of rituals and images of societies. Bodies are part of the spiritual world In the ritual process bodies have agency in structure and anti structure. The gaining of agency via rituals. |
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Ontology |
Being - Study The study of something via it, it is an emic approach to anthropological fieldwork. A turn to view and study things via the best methods open to us as anthropologists. Issues arise when we meet difference and cannot explain it well in our own ways, we must then adopt the approach which creates this ideal. |
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Roy Wagner |
Time/Ontology Symbols that stand for themselves Are there different ways of measuring time? Does time have structure as a clock has one or does a clock have structure because time has structure? |
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Iwi People |
Landscape, Genius Loci, Phenomenology, Ontological Turn Sea, Mountains and Rivers all have their own identities. Largest social group of Maori. See: Whanganui River |
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Nur - Lights |
Non-human Agency, Genius Loci, Phenomenology Safet HadziMuhamedovic Ghosts of the dead who speak in Bosnia. |
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Chronotopes |
Landscape, Time, Ontology, Phenomenology Safet HadziMuhamedovic Time and landscape are heavily linked Space is the subject of time and time is a subject of space. Time moves through a space as space moves through a time. |
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Melvyn Bragg |
Body/Emotion/Nonhuman agency/Time Masculinity in literature Modern vs Early 20th Century. Change of ideals in partners Britain, towards "domestication of man" |
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Landscapes of Conflict |
Landscape/Affect/Emotion Nicholas Saunders - World War I landscapes Navaro - Ruins from conflict Paola Filippucci - WWI How places die |
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Memorial Landscapes |
Memory/Landscape/Affect/Emotion/Dead Body WWI cenotaphs - what is it to remember the fallen? Pierre Nora: There are sites of memory because there are no longer real enviroments of memory. |
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Landscapes on the Move |
Landscape/Non-human Agency Caroline Humprephys Nomadic Communities in Mongolia. The Axis mundi of the fire creates the place. |
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Henri Bergson |
Habit Memory/Dwelling Perspective/Landscape/Body Embodied Memory. Body shaped by the experienced environment. Becomes apparent through the action itself and in the automatic setting in motion of a mechanism adapted to the circumsatance Moken Nomadic People: Ability to see like dolphins |
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Body Politic |
Body The body as a representation of the state |
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Kathrine Verdery |
Body/Agency "The dead have enjoyed political life the world over and far back in time" Dead have the ability to stabilise landscapes. Lenin & Stalin Masolems |
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Heonik Kwon |
Body/Agency/Dead Body/ Non-Human Agency (?)/Memory Ghosts of the Vietnam War Spirits claiming social justice, offerings and stories, social life (kinship/economic). Away from the state. |
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Judith Butler |
Memory/Dead Body Who can be grieved? "Without grievability, there is no life, or, rather there is something living other than life" Performativity Gender as something that is done not is. |
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Hirsch & Splitzer |
Landscape and Abscence Ghosts of Home: Jews post WWII What is missing from a landscape can say a lot about it |
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Uncanny |
Adj A strange or mysterious feeling that is undefinable |
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Richard Walther Darre |
Landscape/Body/Affect Reichminister of Food and Agriculture Politics of belonging and homeland |
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De Certeau |
Landscape/Body/Emotion Every story is a spatial practice. |
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Taskscape |
Tim Ingold Temporality in the pattern of dwelling activities Space and time where actors form tasks of various kinds. The Harveserts, 1565 |
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Phenomenology and the Body |
Merleau-Ponty Space and place as we live them. An approach through things, the phenomena |
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Edmund Leach |
Agency/Body/Emotion Agency is a manifest of criminality that is dormant in all humans Highly criticised. |
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Memory Boom |
late 80s/90s Anthropology and the other social sciences Jay Winter "‘the efflorescence of interest in the subject of memory inside the academy and beyond" Huge boom in the study of memory such as that post WWI |
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Christopher Tilley |
Phenomenology/Landscape Places, Paths and Monuments - The phenomenology in ancient places (monolithic monuments) What were these enviroments like in their day? What were the phenomena? |
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Performance Theory |
Emotion/Body/Anti-Habitus Judith Butler Example of a waiter in a bad mood not changing their work persona. Work is not who you are. |
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People of Guinea Coast of West Africa |
Landscape/Ethnoscape/Temporality Distinction of Spaces: Settlement and Forest. Heart of cosmology, realms of mortals and spirits. Temporal view of settlement founding. Relation to time with ancestors. |
