Somatics Toolkit

Somatics Toolkit

A Somatics Toolkit for Ethnographers

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Core Practice

The core set of 10 audio guides was imagined and developed by Eline Kieft, in collaboration with Doerte Weig and Ben Spatz. Where the first file invites you to arrive (back) into your body, the other nine files address specific topics directly related to the ethnographic cycle of fieldwork. Although ethnography has been the leading methodology behind this project, most of the actions and methods play a role in any research design: we all engage with literature study, with data gathering and with disseminating the results.

Core Practice 

Core Practice 1 — Body Basics: Arriving

18th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

All somatic practices share some basic elements, such as breathing, sensory awareness, and body scan, regardless of the type, teacher,

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Core Practice 2 — Literature: A spatial approach

18th March 201919th March 2019 Ben Spatz

During literature review we easily get inundated with questions about what to read, where to start, and how to find

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Core Practice 3 — Identity: Noticing your lenses

18th March 201919th March 2019 Ben Spatz

This recording supports you to explore your identity as researcher, and articulate some of the lenses through which you approach

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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 5 — Observation: Seeing and Being Seen

18th March 201919th March 2019 Ben Spatz

Observation is one of the core methods of ethnographic data gathering, yet the reciprocity and vulnerability of ‘seeing’ AND ‘being

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Core Practice 6 — Interviews: Intimacy and Reciprocity in the Field

18th March 201919th March 2019 Ben Spatz

Interviews, like observation, are a crucial part of doing ethnography. They are a social event on their own. While you

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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 8 — Analysis: Moving with Polarities

18th March 201919th March 2019 Ben Spatz

Data sets are usually quite messy. How can you write one thesis that represents voices, stakeholders, landscapes, traditions or themes/variables

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Core Practice 9 — Writing: Embodying your Thoughts

18th March 201919th March 2019 Ben Spatz

Writing is literally part and parcel of Ethnography (graphy = writing about ethno = people and cultures). Most texts address

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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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“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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