technology of imagination ( Sneath et al. 2009 ), understood as the social and material means by which particular imaginings are generated, which opens for a creative space in which it is possible to imagine the otherwise unimaginable, such as a different
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In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
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- Research Article
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- 75–90 (16 total)
The Stuff of Imagination
What We Can Learn from Fijian Children's Ideas About Their Lives as Adults
Christina Toren
Through an analysis of Fijian children's essays about the future, this article explores ideas of sociality, personhood, and the self that are the very stuff of intersubjectivity and thus of the imagination, as this gives rise to the lived social reality that is manifested in people's ideas and practices. The material presented here bears on a single aspect of data derived from 75 essays by Fijian village children aged between 7 and 15 years old, that is, their constitution over time of a spatiotemporal orientation toward a view of generations to come. I use this example of spatiotemporal orientation to show how, seen through the perspective derived from long-term participant observer fieldwork, data such as these enable an ethnographic analysis of meaning-making as a transformational, historical process.
Memory, imagination, and belonging across generations
Perspectives from postsocialist Europe and beyond
Haldis Haukanes and Susanna Trnka
The last two decades have witnessed a phenomenal expansion of scholarly work on collective memory. Simultaneously, increasing anthropological attention is being paid to collective visions of the future, albeit through a range of disparate literatures on topics including development, modernity and risk, the imagination, and, perhaps ironically, nostalgia. In this introduction to this special section, we bring together analyses of postsocialist visions of pasts and futures to shed light upon the cultural scripts and social processes through which different temporal visions are ascribed collective meaning, employed in the creation of shared and personal identities, and used to galvanize social and political action.
Wendy James
There is plenty for anthropologists to explore in the vicinity of war, without actually doing ‘fieldwork under fire’ on the battlefield. This article, based on a presentation in 2010 at the EASA conference in Maynooth, reviews some recent studies of the longer‐term consequences of frontier insecurity and warfare for local populations. It focuses on work by Heonik Kwon in Vietnam, Mukulika Banerjee on the Pakistan–Afghan border, and Richard Vokes on Uganda. All these reflect on war as it is understood from afar, and the ways that resistance and response may take imaginative forms, including new kinds of violence, among affected communities.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Aug 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 332–341 (9 total)
Elemental Imagination and Film Experience
Climate Change and the Cinematic Ethics of Immersive Filmworlds
Ludo de Roo
form of imagination that is rooted in our elemental being-in-the-world. As such, this cinematic form of “elemental imagination,” as I will call it, has the potential to enrich the field of cinematic ethics. 1 In other words, elemental imagination is
“Mind the Gap”
Between Movies and Mind, Affective Neuroscience, and the Philosophy of Film
Jane Stadler
the representation and expression of emotion in film. My particular interest is in the account Smith advances of the nature of emotion and its role in relation to empathy and imagination in the film experience. As Smith contends, quantitative empirical
Noel N. Sauer
“Image in the mind” is only a round-about way of saying “imagination.” But to infer from this that there is really an image in the mind … is to be misled by an analogical expression. — Thomas Reid 1 Sartre’s theory of mental imagery has long been
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 53–79 (27 total)
Mary Edwards
The central aim of this paper is to show that Jean-Paul Sartre's mature work represents a fecund source for contemporary feminist debate concerning the role of the imagination in women's psychological oppression. Before beginning, though, the
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 46–75 (30 total)
Accounting for Imaginary Presence
Husserl and Sartre on the Hyle of Pure Imagination
Di Huang
Both Edmund Husserl and Jean-Paul Sartre situate their analyses of imagination 1 within a three-fold distinction of objectifying or representational acts which includes, besides imagination, empty intention and perception. In perception, we have
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 1–22 (22 total)
L'Image entre le corps et l'esprit
Le Mémoire de fin d'études de Sartre
Vincent de Coorebyter
commandera à Sartre, quelques années plus tard, un livre sur les doctrines de l'image qui ne paraîtra jamais sous cette forme mais dont Sartre tirera L'Imagination (1936) et L'Imaginaire (1940). Le manuscrit original du mémoire de Sartre n'est pas
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- Research Article
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- 1–21 (21 total)