How Language Matters: Using Ethnographic Writing to Portray and Reflect on Languaging Actions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Beach ◽  
Limarys Caraballo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Writing

Richang: An Affect-Inflected Ethnography of Chinese Livestreams

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 15-42
Author(s):  
Ge Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
Affective Events ◽  
Mass Entertainment

Abstract I tracked one Chinese livestreaming platform Douyu from its emergence as experimental subsidiary of a Video on Demand platform in 2013 to its status as an ordinary medium of mass entertainment in 2018. This affect-inflected ethnography is written based on participant observation of three channels on Douyu as I exhibit the microcontexts of each channel in chronicles of affective events, long pauses of silence, repetitive and incoherent dialogues, asymmetrical debates, and sporadic moments of emotional meltdown. This ethnographic writing is a contact zone, a provocation, and, by proxy, a dialogue between academic theories (especially from television studies), user practices, and my informants’ own attempts at theorising how and what livestream feels and means for them.

Ethnografisches Schreiben und die Schweigsamkeit des Sozialen / Ethnographic Writing and the Silence of the Social

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Hirschauer
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
The Social

ZusammenfassungDer Aufsatz behandelt ein zentrales Problem der Methodologie der Ethnografie. Er expliziert die Beschreibung als eine elementare soziologische Kulturtechnik. Im Vordergrund steht dabei, deren zentrales Bezugsproblem herauszuarbeiten: die Versprachlichung der ‚schweigsamen‘ Dimension des Sozialen. Das ethnografische Schreiben wird zunächst als ein Dokumentationsverfahren eingeführt, das durch avanciertere Aufzeichnungstechniken der qualitativen Sozialforschung entwertet wurde. Diese setzten einen naturalistischen Standard in Bezug auf die Reifikation und Dekontextualisierung von ‚Daten‘. Nach einer wissenssoziologischen Relativierung dieses Standards werden jene Bezugsprobleme herausgearbeitet, die alle Verfahren unbearbeitet lassen, die mit Aufzeichnungen an eine primordiale Verbalisierung des Sozialen durch Informanten anschließen: Interviews, Diskurs- und Gesprächsanalysen. Es sind die Probleme des Stimmlosen, Stummen, Unaussprechlichen, Vorsprachlichen und Unbeschreiblichen, die das ethnografische Schreiben zuallererst zu lösen hat. In ihm wird etwas zur Sprache gebracht, das vorher nicht Sprache war. Für diese Aufgabe einer Verschiebung der Artikulationsgrenze muss sich die Beschreibung von der Logik der Aufzeichnung abwenden und zu einer theorieorientierten Forschungspraxis werden, die nicht nach ihrer Dokumentationsleistung, sondern nach ihren analytischen Leistungen zu bewerten ist.

scholarly journals Anthropology of development and the challenge of South-South cooperation

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 507-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Letícia Maria Costa da Nóbrega Cesarino
Keyword(s):  
Development Aid ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Tropical Agriculture ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Global Industry ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
Institutional Aspect ◽  
Anthropology Of Development

This article explores some of the challenges and potentials that the emerging phenomenon of South-South cooperation (SSC) might pose to major approaches in the international literature on the anthropology of development. Irrespective of particular politico-conceptual preferences, the latter's analytics have been largely crafted based on ethnographic work about development aid provided by Northern agencies or North-led multilateral organizations. Based on my own fieldwork experience with Brazil's contemporary provision of official technical cooperation in tropical agriculture to various countries in the African continent, I propose a discussion about four sets of themes: Foucauldian approaches to development based on notions of governmentality and discourse; the associated question of politics/depoliticization; the institutional aspect of development cooperation as a national and global industry and bureaucracy; and the question of ethnographic authority and the transit between what David Mosse has referred to as field (relations entertained with informants during fieldwork) and desk (relations entertained with academic peers during ethnographic writing).

scholarly journals Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sander Hölsgens
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Sensory Ethnography ◽  
Ethnographic Writing

As skaters increasingly engage with and respond to socio-political surges across the globe, skateboarding begins to refract into a multiplicity of situated practices. This includes a new wave of collectives and communities who re-imagine what cities could sound, feel, and be like. Combining filmmaking with ethnographic writing, Sander Hölsgens traces the lived experience of a small group of skaters in South Korea. As a skater among skaters, he unravels the site-specific nuances and relational meanings of skateboarding in Seoul – working towards an intimate portrait of a growing community.

Critical Reflections on the Konyak Naga Ethnography

2021 ◽  
pp. 0972558X2110365
Author(s):  
G. Kanato Chophy
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Sociocultural Change ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Peace And War

The Konyak Nagas who inhabit the state of Nagaland in Northeast India have generated considerable anthropological interests since the colonial period. This eastern Naga tribe was mentioned in several colonial reports, but they came into prominence in anthropological literature, following Fürer-Haimendorf’s ethnographic monograph The Naked Nagas: Head-hunters of Assam in Peace and War. Fürer-Haimendorf had conducted fieldwork in Wakching village in the present Mon district between 1936 and 1937, setting off a new genre of ethnographic writing on the Naga tribes. Sifting through Fürer-Haimendorf’s writings, this article attempts a critical analysis of Konyak society and culture in light of recent developments in ethnographic studies. As argued, the Konyak Nagas are far removed from the colonial representations, but they still suffer from exotic imageries in the popular imagination that, in turn, has influenced ethnographic works. This article reflexively analyzes the Konyak Naga ethnography against the backdrop of a rapid sociocultural change facing the community.

Afrocubanismo

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susannah Rodriguez Drissi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Alejo Carpentier ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
Nicolas Guillen ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
Rhythm And Blues ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
Lydia Cabrera

Afrocubanismo constitutes an ideological shift in the valuation of Afro-Cuban forms of cultural expression and their acceptance on a national scale. From about 1927 through to the late 1930s, Afrocubanismo influenced all domains of élitist and popular art. At a time of fundamental changes in artistic expression, Afrocubanismo was partly nourished by international aesthetic trends in Madrid, Paris, and New York. A new interest in the non-commercial expression of Afro-Cubans inspired numerous works, from the ethnographic writing of Lydia Cabrera to the paintings of Eduardo Abela, Jaime Valls, and Wifredo Lam. The literary works of Alejo Carpentier and Nicolás Guillén belong to this Afro-Cuban moment, as do the musical theatre of Ernesto Lecuona and the symphonic compositions of Amadeo Roldán. Afrocubanismo involved, among other things, exchanges between national and transnational figures and forms of expression that included the influence of Cuban music on American jazz, Latin jazz, and rhythm and blues. This exchange culminated in the long relationship between Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén and North American poet Langston Hughes.

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