From Kafka’s Burrow to Underground Sensings
By Johannes Birringer *) The second half of this blog (2) is adapted from the script for Underground Spatialities (2019,
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Author: Eline Kieft
Sound(e)scapes: Singing as self-care tool during fieldwork at home
By Caitlin Pilbeam I was told from the outset, throughout my undergraduate and graduate studies in anthropology, that anthropology in
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Extended Practice — Comfort, Discomfort and the transformation of perception
By Andrew Suseno Our brain learns through comparison. Without a solid grounding in comfort and self-care it is difficult to
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Extended Practice — Dealing with challenging research situations
By Lene Faust and Simone Pfeifer In this Exploration you engage with challenging research situations and how to incorporate them
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The dynamics of flow. An introduction to moving with the fluid system
By Lisa Dowler This audio recording provides a meditative way of connecting to the body’s fluid system, full of spaciousness
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Extended Practice — Yielding as an ecologically sensitive and somatic practice
By Tamara Ashley These yielding practices are designed to anchor your perception of nature in your senses. They enable you
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Core Practice 4 — Confidence: Taking on the Researcher’s Mantel
This Exploration is designed to increase your self-confidence before starting your data collection, before ‘entering the field’. Sometimes it takes
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Core Practice 7 — Places: Being in the Unknown
Entering the unknown can be anything between and beyond exciting and daunting. Wherever you go, there is however one familiar
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Core Practice 10 — Presenting: a full-bodied performance
Presenting our project results to research participants and academic colleagues is an essential part of the research cycle. No matter
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Yielding as an ecologically sensitive and somatic practice
By Tamara Ashley, MFA, PhD, University of Bedfordshire As a somatic practitioner and researcher, I am interested in what we
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Working with Head and Blood
An exploration of how movement tasks can uncover bodily experiences of ethnographic research By Marie Hallager Andersen (choreographer and somatic
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Knowing the Body in the Virtual Field Site
By Harshadha Balasubramanian This post explores the very “real” nature of virtual spaces, including their implications for how researchers understand the
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The Perils of Un-Physical Education: a personal narrative
By Elizabeth Maynard This text is based on a longer presentation at the Race and Yoga conference, University of California
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Embodied awareness as pedagogy and practice for academic resilience
By Elizabeth Maynard This blog text is excerpted from a paper presented at the “Yoga bodies and the transformation of
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Integrating different ways of knowing: deepening interviews through shared movement
By Mila Bammens I’m a fourth year BA cultural anthropology student at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. During my studies, I
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Bringing research activities into the body
By Eline Kieft Over the last twelve months I talked to many people about this project. When I explain the
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The body as research instrument
By Eline Kieft As long as I can remember I have been intrigued by the possibilities of using the body
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