Somatics Toolkit

Somatics Toolkit

A Somatics Toolkit for Ethnographers

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This blog reflects on applying the body within academic research. It includes a variety of voices and experiences — from students to movement practitioners to senior researchers — that represent different disciplines and backgrounds including anthropology, dance practice and scholarship, and theatre studies.

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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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“Tuning” with a personal somatic toolkit

29th May 201930th May 2019 Doerte Weig

By Marcia Donadel Building and enhancing somatic awareness is one of my main concerns as a performer-researcher and teacher. In

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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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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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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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Autonomous Bodies

1st March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Deborah Black Learning from the body takes time and practice. Even after 35 years of physical training in dance

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[an undichotomizing poetic]

20th February 2019 Ben Spatz

somatics : an undichotomizing poetic : a provocative invitation By Bronwyn Preece i am a poet. a performer. eARThist. a writer. i never [rarely] suffer

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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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Palestinian Dance and the Obfuscation of Somatic Source Material

7th February 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Nicole Bindler I am eager to see how the embodiment practices laid out in this toolkit might be used

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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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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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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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Inspirations from the CultureMoves project

13th December 201824th January 2019 Doerte Weig

By Rosa Cisneros and Marie-Louise Crawley This blog post reflects on essential ingredients for a ‘somatics toolkit’ based on the  experience

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Thoughts from Lisbon, Berlin and Madrid

22nd November 201815th January 2019 Doerte Weig

By Doerte Weig How can we best share what we’re developing with the Somatics Toolkit? Since I joined the project

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Em-Body-Ing an Other-ed Body

27th September 201815th January 2019 Ben Spatz

By Fatima E. Adamu — dance. voice. occupational therapy. yoga Photo by Susan Fenton (2004) In order to consider my contribution

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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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The politics of somatics

9th September 201815th January 2019 Ben Spatz

By Ben Spatz Photo: Nazlıhan Eda Erçin in the Judaica Project (Garry Cook, 2017) Helping to develop this “Somatics Toolkit” has

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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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