scholarly journals The Writer as Anthropologist: Teaching Ethnography Through Literature

Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
Ilina Jakimovska
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
Long Time

Literature and ethnographic writing have at least one thing in common - they are both about ‘putting things to paper’. As observed by Clifford Geertz in his Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author (Geertz, 1988), the concern with how ethnographic texts are constructed has for a long time been considered irrelevant, even ‘unanthropological’. As a consequence, important aspects concerning the style, imagery and metaphor of great anthropological works have not been included in the standard teaching curricula.  This paper tries to see things from a reverse Geertz perspective: how can contemporary prose be used to expand ethnographic knowledge, as well as refresh the sometimes stale scientific discourse. The few chosen examples serve as illustrations of the great potential of fiction storytelling to challenge dominant modes of ethnographic writing, and to teach anthropological concepts and ideas.

scholarly journals Science and the Scientific Disciplines

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Self ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Romantic Science

For a long time, empirical science lay outside the field of scholarship concerned with European Romanticism. Recently, however, Romanticism’s traditional reconstruction in terms of an exclusively literary absolute has been challenged and revised. It is now more frequently acknowledged that even the notion ofromantische Poesie, which had always appeared to affirm poetry as Romanticism’s sovereign form, quickly outgrew any stringently restrictive reference to literature. This chapter examines the self-grounding and self-depending character of Romantic scientific discourse. Modern scientific discourse has especially sought to repress such self-consciousness. Romantic science rather becomes an especially interesting variety of Romantic experience, because it seeks to preserve consciousness of the temporal and operational nature of its own statements, while not giving up on the positivity of description, the possibility of veridical reference to objects, or the sensible reality of material nature.

scholarly journals WAJAH ISLAM INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-386
Author(s):  
Imam Fawaid ◽  
Husnul Khatimah
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
Long Time

According to Clifford Geertz, Islam in Indonesia is a religious tradition that is influenced by religious beliefs, ethnic preferences and political ideologies carried out by Modjokuto people as a reflection of the religious traditions of the Javanese community. Geertz states that the style of Islam in Indonesia, especially Java is syncretic Islam. It was from a combination of Islam and Javanese culture. Islam is only a mere accessory but its substance is a noble Javanese culture. Whereas according to Woodward, that religious conception has a big role in transforming certain cultures in this case is Javanese Islamic culture. According to Woodward, the style of Islam in the archipelago is acculturative. It was from the encounter with the local culture in a very long time.

scholarly journals SOCIAL MORPHOLOGY OF POVERTY IN TOURISM AREA: A THICK DESCRIPTION STUDY IN PARAKANSALAK VILLAGE OF SUKABUMI, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-139
Author(s):  
Achmad RIZAL ◽  
◽  
Izza M. APRILIANI ◽  
Rega PERMANA ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
West Java ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Spatial Production ◽  
The People ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Ecological Relations ◽  
The Impact

This research discusses ecological relations in rural areas with the people, thereby placing it within the village's poverty frame for a long time. By taking the case in Parakansalak Village, Sukabumi District, West Java, Indonesia, this research is expected to contribute to poverty studies related to natural resources and the environment. Noting the Indonesian people's great work is poverty alleviation, this research tries to provide a rationale for several villages still in the puddle. Thus, the research method used is the ethnographic method so that the strong character gets what Clifford Geertz calls thick descriptions. The results of this study reveal the facts why this is so by raising several basic things, namely: a) associated with citizens as farmers who have a level of dependence on the land that is their source of livelihood in agriculture, b) in terms of agricultural land production which is very dependent in climate, c) the level of production is not enough to provide benefits for the fulfillment of the needs of farmers because of the absence of agricultural land - because the land is only limited by a handful of citizens, and d) creating a social structure that is fully agreed with the land, thus creating poverty as a form of social morphology. The impact of spatial production as a form of social morphology illustrates poverty conditions in Parakansalak Village.

scholarly journals THE CLASSIC PERIOD NECROPOLIS OF THE RAEVSKOYE FORTIFIED SETTLEMENT: HISTORY OF RESEARCH, TOPOGRAPHY AND CHRONOLOGY

2021 ◽  
pp. 327-340
Author(s):  
А. А. Малышев ◽  
С. С. Горланов ◽  
А. В. Мочалов
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Settlement History ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Current Stage

Раевское городище - региональный и экономический центр юго-восточной Синдики (хоры античной Горгиппии) на протяжении III в. до н. э. - I в. н. э. -было введено в научный оборот благодаря раскопкам В. И. Сизова в 1886 г. Вопрос о местоположении некрополя городища, население которого могло насчитывать несколько сотен жителей, долгое время оставался открытым. Итоги исследований за последние полвека показали, что захоронения античного времени расположены на возвышенностях, простирающихся к западу и востоку от городища. К сожалению, на нынешнем этапе хронология захоронений некрополя далеко не всегда коррелирует с периодом бытования античного центра на Раевском городище. В частности, слабо документирован погребальными комплексами III в. до н. э. и практически отсутствуют материалы, которые можно было бы связать с обитателями северо-восточного мыса городища в раннеримское время. О периферийности центра свидетельствует отсутствие находок надгробных памятников. The Raevskoye fortified settlement was a regional and economic center of southeastern Sindike (chora of Greek Gorgippia) throughout 3rd century BC -1st century AD. The site was introduced in scientific discourse thanks to excavations conducted by V.I. Sizov in 1886. The issue relating to the location of the necropolis of the hillfort where several hundred people had probably lived remained open for a long time. The excavations over the recent 50 years have shown that graves of the Classical period are located on hills extending east of and west of the settlement. Unfortunately, at the current stage of research the chronology of graves in the necropolis does not always correlate with the period of functioning of the Ancient Greek center at the Raevskoye hillfort. In particular, few burial assemblages date back to the 3rd century BC; and there are practically no materials that could be linked to the inhabitants of the northeastern promontory of the fortified settlement during the Early Roman period. A lack of tombstones evidences the marginal character of the settlement at that time.

Contemporary Spirituality and the Making of Religious Experience

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Versteeg ◽  
Johan Roeland
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Contemporary Religion ◽  
Social Scientific

The ‘turn to experience’ has been described as one of the most defining characteristics of contemporary religion. Research on religion, and in particular on spirituality, therefore increasingly concentrates on the description of its experiential dimensions. The turn to experience, however, asks for something more than just the observation that a particular dimension (experience) has become of greater value for practitioners of religion. Dimensions which have for a long time been central to the social-scientific study of religion, but are avoided in the practitioners’ discourse and, surprisingly, in the social-scientific discourse as well, such as authority and power, turn out to be of lasting significance in the mediation and construction of religious experience. In this contribution, the authors take the social construction of religious experience in contemporary spirituality as a starting point for a reflection and discussion on the methodological challenges of experiential religion for those engaged in the study of religion.

scholarly journals Data, Methods and Writing

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-16
Author(s):  
Ingmar Lippert ◽  
Julie Sascia Mewes
Keyword(s):  
Research Output ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
Long Time

Methods have been recognised in STS as mattering for a long time. STS ethnographies establish a boundary object with which STS scholars weave a pattern: From such ethnographic accounts we learn that knowledge is produced locally. Ethnography has over the recent decades been highlighted as a key method in STS. And that STS ethnography is specifically shaped by being often configured to consider its forms of collaboration or intervention in the field. This special issue focuses on how methods matter, specifically on how STS ethnographic collaboration and its data are translated into ethnographic writing, or performative of other reality effects. Exploring STS’s own methods-in-action brings to attention the messy landscape of method practice. Our objective in this exploration is to develop a genre of writing about method that fosters response-ability and enables the audience of research output to position themselves between the research materials and practices that were invested into the study. This special issue hopes to contribute to STS engagement with its methods by way of methodography. Methodography serves as a genre of analytic writing, that articulates specificity and scrutinises the situated practices of producing STS knowledge.

Plasticity of the neural coding metaphor: An unnoticed rhetoric in scientific discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Frezza ◽  
Pierluigi Zoccolotti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Neural Coding ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Convincing Argument ◽  
Unified View ◽  
Brain Behavior

Abstract The convincing argument that Brette makes for the neural coding metaphor as imposing one view of brain behavior can be further explained through discourse analysis. Instead of a unified view, we argue, the coding metaphor's plasticity, versatility, and robustness throughout time explain its success and conventionalization to the point that its rhetoric became overlooked.

200kv superconducting cryo electron microscope

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 642-643
Author(s):  
M. Iwatsuki ◽  
Y. Kokubo ◽  
Y. Harada ◽  
J. Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Organic Materials ◽  
Strong Interactions ◽  
Specimen Preparation ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Crystal Fields ◽  
Special Skill ◽  
Long Time

In recent years, the electron microscope has been significantly improved in resolution and we can obtain routinely atomic-level high resolution images without any special skill. With this improvement, the structure analysis of organic materials has become one of the interesting targets in the biological and polymer crystal fields.Up to now, X-ray structure analysis has been mainly used for such materials. With this method, however, great effort and a long time are required for specimen preparation because of the need for larger crystals. This method can analyze average crystal structure but is insufficient for interpreting it on the atomic or molecular level. The electron microscopic method for organic materials has not only the advantage of specimen preparation but also the capability of providing various information from extremely small specimen regions, using strong interactions between electrons and the substance. On the other hand, however, this strong interaction has a big disadvantage in high radiation damage.

A Stationary Solution of High-Energy Electron Reflection (HEER) for An Arbitrary Surface

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-375
Author(s):  
YIQUN MA
Keyword(s):  
Stationary Solution ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Bloch Wave ◽  
Dynamical Theory ◽  
High Energy Electron ◽  
Bulk Materials ◽  
Periodic Surface ◽  
Electron Transmission ◽  
Electron Reflection ◽  
Long Time

For a long time, the development of dynamical theory for HEER has been stagnated for several reasons. Although the Bloch wave method is powerful for the understanding of physical insights of electron diffraction, particularly electron transmission diffraction, it is not readily available for the simulation of various surface imperfection in electron reflection diffraction since it is basically a method for bulk materials and perfect surface. When the multislice method due to Cowley & Moodie is used for electron reflection, the “edge effects” stand firmly in the way of reaching a stationary solution for HEER. The multislice method due to Maksym & Beeby is valid only for an 2-D periodic surface.Now, a method for solving stationary solution of HEER for an arbitrary surface is available, which is called the Edge Patching method in Multislice-Only mode (the EPMO method). The analytical basis for this method can be attributed to two important characters of HEER: 1) 2-D dependence of the wave fields and 2) the Picard iteractionlike character of multislice calculation due to Cowley and Moodie in the Bragg case.

Direct imaging of charge transfer

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 680-681
Author(s):  
Yimei Zhu ◽  
J. Tafto
Keyword(s):  
Charge Transfer ◽  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Scattering Amplitude ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
Charge Carriers ◽  
Image Charge ◽  
Net Charge ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Electron Holes ◽  
First Time

The electron holes confined to the CuO2-plane are the charge carriers in high-temperature superconductors, and thus, the distribution of charge plays a key role in determining their superconducting properties. While it has been known for a long time that in principle, electron diffraction at low angles is very sensitive to charge transfer, we, for the first time, show that under a proper TEM imaging condition, it is possible to directly image charge in crystals with a large unit cell. We apply this new way of studying charge distribution to the technologically important Bi2Sr2Ca1Cu2O8+δ superconductors.Charged particles interact with the electrostatic potential, and thus, for small scattering angles, the incident particle sees a nuclei that is screened by the electron cloud. Hence, the scattering amplitude mainly is determined by the net charge of the ion. Comparing with the high Z neutral Bi atom, we note that the scattering amplitude of the hole or an electron is larger at small scattering angles. This is in stark contrast to the displacements which contribute negligibly to the electron diffraction pattern at small angles because of the short g-vectors.

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