of the dividends of their awareness for human experience. Recursivity here is thus deeply related to self-reflexivity or self-awareness: it is because the cosmos is aware of itself as cosmos (in its constitution) that it is able to describe, produce
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Recursivity and the Self-Reflexive Cosmos
Tricksters in Cuban and Brazilian Spirit Mediumship Practices
Diana Espírito Santo
Timothy B. Leduc and Susan A Crate
This article is concerned with the way in which indigenous place-based knowledge and understandings, in a time of global climate change, have the potential to challenge researchers to self-reflexively shift the focus of their research toward those technological and consumer practices that are the cultural context of our research. After reviewing some literature on the emergence of self-reflexivity in research, the authors offer two case studies from their respective environmental education and anthropological research with northern indigenous cultures that clarifies the nature of a self-reflexive turn in place-based climate research and education. The global interconnections between northern warming and consumer culture-and its relation to everexpanding technological systems-are considered by following the critical insights of place-based knowledge. We conclude by examining the possibility that relocalizing our research, teaching, and ways of living in consumer culture are central to a sustainable future, and if so, the knowledge and understandings of current place-based peoples will be vital to envisioning such a cultural transformation of our globalizing system.
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2013
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- Research Article
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- 134–161 (28 total)
Bodies with Objects in Space through Screens
Casual Virtuality and the Self-Mediation of Laura Paolini's Constraining Aesthetics
Jakub Zdebik
, or more precisely, a counterpoint installation to the Make Your Bed performance, seems like a sober tracing of the performance. It is a riff on the very meaning of performance with a self-reflexive meta-commentary on the business of the previous
Ilan Manouach
potential’. 9 Conceptual Comics mobilise the historical legacy of conceptual art in its capacity for institutional critique, self-reflexivity, the constitution of alternative forms of skilling/deskilling, and the prioritisation of context over content, to a
In European Comic Art
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- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 102–129 (28 total)
The Medium Is the Message
Olivier Schrauwen’s Arsène Schrauwen beyond Expectations of Autobiography, Colonial History and the Graphic Novel
Benoît Crucifix and Gert Meesters
delivers an ironically strange, at times even absurd and playfully self-reflexive narrative. Beyond this apparent weirdness, Arsène Schrauwen is an exotic adventure that taps into the Belgian colonial imaginary to reflect on cultural differences
In European Comic Art
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- Research Article
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- 24–62 (39 total)
‘Coming To Look Alike’
Materializing Affinity in Japanese Foster and Adoptive Care
Kathryn E. Goldfarb
and fostering are not easily recognized as kinship. I suggest that material resemblance is taken up as a pragmatic semiotics ( Silverstein 1993 ; Stasch 2009) through which people self-reflexively interpret the signs that count as relatedness
‘I'm Not that Kind of Doctor’
On Being In-Between in a Global Health Intervention
Erica Nelson
the role of anthropologist as social critic? Did I conduct my fieldwork in a way that was fully cognisant of what Benedetta Rossi calls ‘the complex issues of self-reflexivity, positionality and power?’ ( Rossi 2004 ). In truth, I struggled to
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Mar 2019
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- Research Article
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- 12–20 (9 total)
Beyond the Edges of the Screen
Longing for the Physical ‘Spaces Between’
Alyssa Grossman and Selena Kimball
meeting (Parsons School of Design), 2020. Photo by Selena Kimball. But this closeness, this blurredness, is what we wish to examine more carefully here. We present this text as a shared, self-reflexive conversation from the perspective of a visual
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Dec 2021
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- Research Article
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- 1–11 (11 total)
Questions from the Field
Anthropological Self-reflexivity through the Eyes of Study Participants
Sangmi Lee
Although there is nothing new about how anthropologists can be the observed instead of simply being the observer and that they can also be interviewed while interviewing, no one has studied the kinds of questions they receive from the people that they study and interact with in the field. Questions that research participants ask the anthropologists during fieldwork provide a critical way to reflect upon historical and persistent issues related to field-work, such as positionality, self-reflexivity and methodology. Based on fourteen months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among two Hmong communities in Laos and the United States, this article examines some of the questions I received from the people in my study and suggests that anthropologists need to pay more critical attention to these questions as a source of self-reflexivity and positionality in the process of ethnographic writing.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 39–42 (3 total)
Egyptian Football Ultras and the January 25th Revolution
Anti-corporate, Anti-militarist and Martyrdom Masculinities
Manal Hamzeh and Heather Sykes
This article examines the masculinities of Ultras football fans during and after the January 25th Egyptian revolution, within the interlocking systems of power of neoliberalism, militarism and Islamism. The Ultras' anti-corporate masculinities were strengthened through protests against satellite TV and the Egyptian Football Association, while they also developed anti-militarist masculinities as they protested business elites, Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and Central Security Forces. The Ultras developed martyrdom masculinities due to their shock over the Port Said stadium massacre and subsequent retribution protests. The Ultras may be reiterating hegemonic masculinities operating within the same patriarchal logic of the three regimes. Their grief and shock may be limiting their self-reflexivity and capacity to build coalitions.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 91–107 (17 total)