Somatics Toolkit

Somatics Toolkit

A Somatics Toolkit for Ethnographers

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Author: Eline Kieft

Blog 

From Kafka’s Burrow to Underground Sensings

28th November 201928th November 2019 Eline Kieft

By Johannes Birringer *) The second half of this blog (2) is adapted from the script for Underground Spatialities (2019,

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Blog 

Sound(e)scapes: Singing as self-care tool during fieldwork at home

11th April 2019 Eline Kieft

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 

Extended Practice — Comfort, Discomfort and the transformation of perception

20th March 201929th March 2019 Eline Kieft

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 

Extended Practice — Dealing with challenging research situations

20th March 201927th August 2019 Eline Kieft

By Lene Faust and Simone Pfeifer In this Exploration you engage with challenging research situations and how to incorporate them

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Extended Practice 

The dynamics of flow. An introduction to moving with the fluid system

20th March 201926th February 2021 Eline Kieft

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 

Extended Practice — Yielding as an ecologically sensitive and somatic practice

20th March 201929th March 2019 Eline Kieft

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 

Core Practice 4 — Confidence: Taking on the Researcher’s Mantel

18th March 201921st March 2019 Eline Kieft

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 

Core Practice 7 — Places: Being in the Unknown

18th March 201912th April 2019 Eline Kieft

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 

Core Practice 10 — Presenting: a full-bodied performance

18th March 201929th March 2019 Eline Kieft

Presenting our project results to research participants and academic colleagues is an essential part of the research cycle. No matter

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Blog 

Yielding as an ecologically sensitive and somatic practice

8th March 201920th March 2019 Eline Kieft

By Tamara Ashley, MFA, PhD, University of Bedfordshire As a somatic practitioner and researcher, I am interested in what we

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Blog 

Working with Head and Blood

5th March 201929th March 2019 Eline Kieft

An exploration of how movement tasks can uncover bodily experiences of ethnographic research By Marie Hallager Andersen (choreographer and somatic

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Blog 

Knowing the Body in the Virtual Field Site

20th February 2019 Eline Kieft

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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Blog 

The Perils of Un-Physical Education: a personal narrative

5th February 201929th March 2019 Eline Kieft

By Elizabeth Maynard This text is based on a longer presentation at the Race and Yoga conference, University of California

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Blog 

Embodied awareness as pedagogy and practice for academic resilience

28th January 201929th March 2019 Eline Kieft

By Elizabeth Maynard This blog text is excerpted from a paper presented at the “Yoga bodies and the transformation of

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Blog 

Integrating different ways of knowing: deepening interviews through shared movement

23rd January 201924th January 2019 Eline Kieft

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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Blog 

Bringing research activities into the body

14th September 201815th January 2019 Eline Kieft Constellations Theory, Embodied Research, Literature Review

By Eline Kieft Over the last twelve months I talked to many people about this project. When I explain the

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Blog 

The body as research instrument

13th December 201715th January 2019 Eline Kieft

By Eline Kieft As long as I can remember I have been intrigued by the possibilities of using the body

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“The instructions allow me to think with my body and this provides me with different ways of perceiving the materials in front of me.”

— PhD Student Anthropology

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