scholarly journals Bodies as Arenas of Experimentation: Experiencing Novel Ways of Running

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124162199678
Author(s):  
Toomas Gross
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
Perceptual Awareness ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Movement Perception ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Recreational Runners

Recreational running has been a widely popular form of leisure for half a century, and many countries have experienced a marathon boom in the past decades. In recent years, however, runners have started to run in new ways, often in unconventional settings, and compete in races with various alternative formats. Through an ethnographic approach that builds on in-depth narrative interviews with recreational runners, analysis of runners’ blogs, and participant observation in running events in Estonia, I suggest that as completing a marathon becomes a routine activity, increasingly many dedicated runners turn their bodies into veritable “arenas of experimentation.” Drawing on Zeiler’s concept of bodily “eu-appearance” and Ingold’s concerted approach to movement, perception, and knowledge, and building more generally on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological perspective, I argue that such corporeal experimentation is motivated by novel sensorial experiences that lead to a heightened awareness of one’s own body as well as by a pursuit of altered and intensified perceptual awareness of the environment one runs in.

scholarly journals Where program and fantasy meet: Female fans conversing with character bots in Japan

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Nishimura
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
Ethnographic Approach

Character bots are automated programs that post—that is, tweet—characters' lines from popular manga, anime, games, and so on. They post regularly, and in the past few years they have become difficult to ignore, especially in fan communities. Many fans take great pleasure in interacting with favorite characters as bots; rhey also enjoy the communities that spring up around favorite series, characters, and, yes, even bots. Here I adopt an ethnographic approach to analyze the human dimensions of the phenomenon of character bots, based on participant observation among female fans in Japan.

scholarly journals Food and social identity: Rural lives that appear through food

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliziane Nicolodi Francescato RUIZ ◽  
Tatiana Engel GERHARDT
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Rural Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Daily Food ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Food And Identity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT Objective The objective was to analyze the interactions between food and identity by exploring the daily food eaten by a rural community. Under the gift theory view, the aim is to present readings concerning a rural identity that the research participants constituted through eating; this aim is premised on the assumption that analyzing the relationship between the identity of a group and eating becomes important because of the marked influence that belonging to a collective has in food. Methods An ethnographic approach was used including participant observation, field diary annotations, and interviews with 21 interlocutors. Results The activity of eating produced at least two categories that characterized rural identity: one marked by the stigma of the past, and the other by values that, above all, denote a reaction to stigma; a reaction to stigma is linked to the work that also sustains the honor of a family, the consumption of food/goods common in the city, inclusion in a larger society, and commitment to the collective. Conclusion Eating, in addition to the biological and individual, can also be apprehended as a complex and revealing sociocultural phenomenon, including ways of belonging to a group. With food a marked rural identity appears, mainly through reactions to stigmata.

scholarly journals FOOTBALL, TELEVISION AND GLOBALISATION IN DOI MOI VIETNAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3(72)) ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
Thi Hoa Tran
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Partial Result ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
The Past ◽  
Doi Moi ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

This paper investigates the relationship between television and globalisation in Doi Moi Vietnam via the case of football. Using document analysis and participant observation in an ethnographic approach, and drawing on globalisation theories as the theoretical frameworks, the author analyses the changes of football in Vietnam since the country re-opened its door to the world in 1986 and the role television has played in this process. The research suggests the rise of open nationalism as a special feature in Vietnam in the Doi Moi period. From a historical perspective, the paper sees present-day globalisation in Vietnam as a partial result of the past rather than a purely independent period of time.

Language as Symbol System: Islam, Javanese Muslem and Cultural Diplomacy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mochammad Arief Wicaksono ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Symbol System ◽  
Symbolic System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
Great Tradition ◽  
Linguistic Aspect

Islamic diaspora throughout the world has its own characteristics depending on cultural context in each region. Observing the characteristics of the entry process and the rise of Islam in Java in the past, Indonesia can be viewed significantly through a linguistic perspective. By focusing on the narratives of how Islam was constructed in Java by kiai, we will be able to understand that the pattern of the entry process and the rise of Islam in Java emerged through“language diplomacy.” There are various symbols which later became the symbol system in Islamic languages that were contextualized to Javanese language and knowledge systems. In other words, I see that language in this context is a symbol system. These symbols are a strategy of how Islam was “planted” and developed in Java. I will compare the symbol system of the language in the Quran as the Great Tradition of Islam with a symbol system on the narratives that a kiai expressed in Javanese society as the Little Tradition. By taking some narratives that the kiai gave to the Javanese Moslems in East Java region, this paper argues that the linguistic aspect in some narratives and Quran recitation which has the symbolic system of the language have an important role in planting and developing Islam in Java. This paper is based on ethnographic research-participant observation among Nahdlatul Ulama Muslim society in East Java, Indonesia and reviews Islamic narratives in society as an important unit of analysis.

Ẹnu dùn ń rò’fọ́…: Theatre design, audience cognition and dramatic adaptation of Fagunwa’s texts

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Aderemi Adeoye
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Text Design ◽  
Theatre Design ◽  
Vegetable Soup ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Theoretical Structure ◽  
Theatrical Adaptation ◽  
Stage Performance ◽  
Technical Challenges ◽  
Analysis Of Performance

The stage performance of Langbodo, a play, which Nigerian dramatist Wale Ogunyemi adapted from Soyinka’s The Forest of a Thousand Daemons, which, in turn, is a translation of D. O. Fagunwa’s prose, Ògbójú Ọdẹ Nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀. 'The bold hunter in the daemon-infested forest', exposed the limitation of the text as a bearer of meaning in the theatrical adaptation context. The limitation is analysed in this work to justify the centrality of adaptation in bridging the text-design-audience semiotic gap. This study examines the technical challenges of theatre design in D. O. Fagunwa’s works resulting from their adaptation as drama. The Yoruba apothegmatic idiom, Ẹnu ‘dùn ń rò’fọ́, agada ọwọ́ ṣeé ṣán’ko (which means, literally, that ‘vegetable soup can be prepared orally if a mere hand suffices for a cutlass’), a traditional derision for the inadequacies of the text, and the Barthesian notion of intertextuality serve as a dual theoretical structure in this study. A combination of methodologies including participant observation and ethnographic approach suffice for the retrieval and analysis of performance materials, respectively. Therefore, the study contends that the process of stage adaptation in Wale Ogunyemi’s play, Langbodo, used the technical contributions of theatre design, as a catalyst for connecting Fagunwa’s ideas to the final audience.

scholarly journals Ethnozoological study of the wild pig (Sus spp.) hunting among Sundanese in Upper Citarum Watershed area, West Java, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dede Mulyanto ◽  
Oekan Soekotjo Abdoellah ◽  
Johan Iskandar ◽  
Budhi Gunawan
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
West Java ◽  
Watershed Area ◽  
Wild Pigs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hunting Success ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Rural Ecosystem ◽  
The Village ◽  
Wild Pig

Abstract. Mulyanto D, Abdoellah OS, Iskandar J, Gunawan B. 2021. Ethnozoological study of the wild pig (Sus spp.) hunting among Sundanese in Upper Citarum Watershed area, West Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 22: 4930-4939. In the past, wild pigs had a high population in the rural ecosystem of West Java. However, the population of wild pigs, particularly Javan warty pig, decreases due to forest destructions and intensive hunting. This study aimed to elucidate the local knowledge on wild pigs, the mode of hunting, and diverse aspects of wild pig hunting. We conducted qualitative methods with ethnozoological approach, including participant observation and in-depth interview. The results showed that based on the local people the wild pig can be divided into four “races”, while based on zoology, two species of wild pig are documented in Java. During hunts all members get specific key roles. Thus, hunting success is increased by division of labor. Hunting wild pigs played an important role in socio-economic and cultural function for the village community. Due to intensive hunting of wild pigs, the population of these animals, particularly the Javan warty pig are decreased, and consequently the socio-economy of this animal in rural ecosystem may decrease ot even disappear.

scholarly journals LANDSCAPE AND ORIENTATION OF MEGALITHIC CHAMBERS IN MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN (NORTH GERMANY): PHENOMENOLOGY PERSPECTIVE (Bentang Alam dan Orientasi Megalitik di Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Jerman Utara: Perspektif Phenomenologi)

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-141
Author(s):  
Marlin Tolla
Keyword(s):  
Edmund Husserl ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Northern Germany ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
North Germany

Phenomenological perspective is one of the approaches in archaeology especially applies to the use of sensory experiences of the past peoples through material cultures. Phenomenological approaches is based of some German philosopher such as Edmund Husserl, MartinHeidegger which put their attention to perceptions and knowledge which are based on experience of daily lives. Phenomenological approach have been produces a great impact through some works of archaeologist especialy from the group of Post-Procesualist such as Christian Tilley and others in attempt to interpretated the landscape phenomenon in Britain archaeological sites. In relations with that, the phenomenology approaches will be used to analysed the groups of megaliths chambers in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (northern Germany) according to the cosmological significance.ABSTRAKPenomenologi adalah salah satu pendekatan yang digunakan dalam arkeolologi terutama dalam menganalisa ‘experience’ atau pengalaman manusia pada masa lalu melalui budaya material yang ditinggalkan. Pendekatan ini diadopsi dari filosof Jerman seperti: Edmund Husserl dan Martin Heidegger yang menekankan bahwa esensi dari presepsi manusia adalah terletak pada ‘pengalaman’ yang ditemukan di setiap hari. Pendekatan ini kemudian diadopsi oleh arkeolog terutama yang berasal dari grup Post-prosesualis seperti Christian Tilley dan lainnya terutama dalam menginterpretasikan arkeologi landskap. Merujuk pada hal ini, megalitik di Mecklenburg-Vorpommern diindikasikan sebagai ‘buah’ dari pengalaman oleh manusia pada masa lalu dalam menginterpretasikan alam sekitar mereka terutama dalam hubungannya dengan kosmologi.

scholarly journals Tracking Work from the Wrist: The Surveillance of Ethiopian Women Athletes for Capital

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Borenstein
Keyword(s):  
Women Athletes ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
The Body ◽  
European American ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tracking Devices ◽  
Paper Address

This paper considers the ways in which these new GPS watches becoming commonplace among Ethiopian athletes are changing how women professional athletes in Ethiopia (who have the potential to bring in substantial earnings in Ethiopia) are monitored by husbands, coaches, agents, and sponsors. In the past 2-3 years, however, digital self-tracking devices (DSTDs) have come close to replacing shoes as the most sought after training aid. Watches – that track pacing, kilometers, miles, steps, caloric output, elevation gain, and heart rate – are bought and brought home from international competitions and gifted by agents, managers, and fans from abroad. Some sponsored athletes’ data are even instantaneously transferred to Nike laboratories in Portland after they finish practice in Addis Ababa. Drawing on participant observation and interviews, the paper address the new pressures and working conditions that this type of monitoring can introduce by considering how husbands, brothers, coaches, and agents – all men (Ethiopian, European, American, etc.) –  monitor these devices and reflect or change existing the gendered dynamics of working in elite sport. It asks: What are the working implications of this new kind of monitoring? How do they intersect and contest gendered norms that exist through and outside of sport and surveillance studies? And how does this impact conceptions of the body both within and outside of professional athletics?

scholarly journals Exploring the relationship between community-based physical activity and wellbeing in people with dementia: a qualitative study

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 522-542
Author(s):  
ALAN WRIGHT
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Informal Carers ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThis study sought to identify factors which influenced how a group of people with dementia living in their own homes participated in community-based physical activity and explored the effect that exercise groups, dance and walking had on their wellbeing. A broadly ethnographic approach was adopted in which participant observation and interviews were employed. Nineteen people with dementia and seven formal and informal carers were included in the participant observation phase. Eleven people with dementia were interviewed. The analysis and interpretation of data was informed by embodiment and social constructionist theoretical perspectives. Findings suggest that a complex interplay between attitudes and beliefs, retained embodied abilities, and aspects of the physical and social environment influenced how individuals engaged in physical activity and the degree to which they experienced wellbeing as a result. Findings suggest that when certain factors co-exist, physical activity can provide a context within which people with dementia are able to use embodied skills in order to support fragile identities, connect with others and express themselves.

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