scholarly journals Moving toward ‘home’: love and relationships through war and displacement

Author(s):  
Holly Porter

Abstract The processual nature of affinal relationships is well established in Africanist anthropology. This article calls for greater attention to spatial considerations and proposes the concept of movement as an integral dimension of understanding affinal relationships. This observation springs from reflections on how the experiences of displacement and return in northern Uganda have reshaped constructions of ‘home’ in relation to love and intimate relationships. Reflecting on ethnographic research over ten years in northern Uganda where a two-decade-long war (1986–2006) occurred, the article examines movements in relationships between public and private spaces against the backdrop of wider societal movements from the spatial moral geography of camp to home. It reflects on how the spatial dynamics of camps entailed profound disruptions to ‘normal’ gendered orderings of life and how ‘home’ is being reconfigured in the aftermath of war.

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
Nadine Grass ◽  
Viola Kessel ◽  
Linda Raile ◽  
Matthias Treitler

Author(s):  
Christopher Boyd Brown

Aural culture, including music, was central to Protestant efforts to redefine authentic Christianity and Christian practice. Inheriting from medieval Christianity both a rich musical tradition and anxiety over the spiritual value of sound, Reformers sought to delimit and deploy music as means and mark of the spread of the Reformation and to employ it in their institutions: in churches and schools as well as in homes. Across confessional boundaries, but in ways distinct to each, the practice of music served to define confessional identity and to bridge or to separate public and private spaces, the sacred and the secular or profane. Despite significant differences in content and context, for the large majority of sixteenth-century Protestants (and in the eyes of their theological opponents), communal singing of hymns (chorales) or metrical psalms became a defining and enduring feature of Protestant identity.


2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Paul Marshall

The account of gender on the Cybermind Mailing List is furthered by presentation of data and discussion from the List which touches on gender. Areas considered include: attitudes to feminism; gender and technology; awareness of gender; gendered patterns of communication; clichés about the way the different genders address each other; flaming and aggression; harassment; single gender lists; gender ambiguity; intimacy; the shifting divisions between public and private spaces; and bodies and netsex.


2013 ◽  
Vol 409-410 ◽  
pp. 381-387
Author(s):  
Binyad Maruf Abdulkadir Khaznadar

Privacy is one of the socio-cultural factors that affect on the formation of vernacular houses forms as a space organization and forms of elevations. Dealing with privacy varies from one culture to another, and this explains the diversity of houses forms in detached geographic regions. Privacy affects on the vernacular forms through a set of sub-factors. The most effective sub-factor on the elevations of traditional houses forms in Erbil city is the privacy of view between public and private spaces. In the selected samples this relationship is a direct one. The sub-factor of view privacy affects on the elevation form through form of the element and the position of the element regarding the whole elevation. Privacy is an effective factor that affects on the formal language of elevations in the traditional vernacular houses within the culture of Erbil city.


2019 ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Olivia Leal Sorcia

En el artículo se analiza la etnografía y sus técnicas de investigación tradicionales como recurso central para identificar espacios públicos y privados, así como prácticas sociales ligadas a la reproducción de procesos de etnicidad urbana, tanto en metrópolis como en ciudades medias en México. El acercamiento reciente con grupos indígenas ha llevado a replantear la puesta en práctica de ciertas técnicas de investigación consideradas propias del método etnográfico en la antropología. Me refiero a la observación participante, la entrevista dirigida y el registro en el diario de campo. La agencia mostrada en la actualidad por sujetos, familias y colectivos indígenas radicados en diversas ciudades mexicanas, problematiza los contenidos y formas asociados tradicionalmente a dichas técnicas, además de ponderar prácticas de reflexividad por parte de los investigadores. A partir de la revisión de diversos trabajos con indígenas urbanos desarrollados en la última década, se discuten dichas consideraciones a la luz de proponer nuevas prácticas en las formas y contenido etnográfico con sujetos, familias, colectivos y grupos indígenas radicados en diversos centros urbanos mexicanos.Challenges for ethnographic work with urban indians in mexican citiesAbstractThis article analyzes ethnography and its traditional research techniques as a central resource to identify public and private spaces as well as social practices linked to the reproduction of processes of urban ethnicity, both in metropolis and in medium-sized cities in Mexico. The recent approach with indigenous groups has led to rethink the implementation of certain research techniques considered appropriate to the ethnographic method in anthropology. It means the participant observation, the directed interview and the reports in the field notebook. The agency currently shown by individuals, families and indigenous groups based in various Mexican cities problematizes the contents and forms traditionally associated with these techniques, as well as weighing reflexivity practices by researchers. From reviewing various works developed with urban indigenous in the last decade, these considerations are discussed in the light of proposing new practices in ethnographic forms and content with subjects, families, groups and indigenous groups located in various Mexican urban centers.Keywords: Ethnography; ethnographic reflexivity; urban indigenous; citiesand indigenous.Desafios do trabalho etnográfico com indígenas urbanos em cidades mexicanasResumoNo artigo analisa-se a etnografia e suas técnicas de pesquisa tradicionais como recurso central para identificar espaços públicos e privados, bem como práticas sociais ligadas à reprodução de processos de etnicidade urbana, tanto em metrópoles como em cidades médias no México. A aproximação recente com grupos indígenas tem levado a repensar a aplicação de certas técnicas de pesquisa consideradas próprias do método etnográfico na antropologia. Refiro-me à observação participante, a entrevista dirigida e o registro no diário de campo. A agência mostrada na atualidade por sujeitos, famílias e coletivos indígenas radicados em diversas cidades mexicanas, problematiza os conteúdos e formas associados tradicionalmente a ditas técnicas, além de ponderar práticas de reflexividade por parte dos pesquisadores. A partir da revisão de diversos trabalhos com indígenas urbanos desenvolvidos na última década, discutem-se ditas considerações à luz de propor novas práticas nas formas e conteúdo etnográfico com sujeitos, famílias, coletivos e grupos indígenas radicados em diversos centros urbanos mexicanos.Palavras-chave: Etnografia; reflexividade etnográfica; indígenasurbanos; cidades e indígenas.


Author(s):  
Jeff W. Totten ◽  
Thomas J. Lipscomb ◽  
Rasheek Irtisam

The authors define mobile phone etiquette, and then summarize the academic research on the topic from its beginnings as usage in public and private spaces. We also provide tabular summaries of basic etiquette rules and inappropriate locations based on an extensive review of the consumer and trade press literature (newspaper and magazine articles, Internet web postings, and books). The authors end with suggestions for further research, a References section with 101 citations, and key articles and books that graduate students, who want to continue the research in this area, should read and study.


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