Reflections from the field – Brighton
”If, very broadly speaking, we think of anthropology as the discipline of explaining the behavior and thoughts of people bounded within a culture in terms that are intelligible to people outside that culture, then fieldwork is that part of the process which takes place when the anthropologist is in the field dwelling among the people […]
SENSORY WALK in “Why the world needs anthropologists” – conference, Lisboa, Portugal
I arrived on Wednesday the 24th of October 2018 to Lisbon. The next day we met with my colleague and SENSOTRA’s Slovenian expert prof. Rajko Muršič and with some local people from the WWNA conference to plan our sensory walk here in Lisboa. We decided to perform the walk near ISCTE where our workshop would take place […]
Reflections on fieldwork in Turku in AntroBlogi
How do sensory memories, walking sensations and technology mediate our urban experience? Insights from SENSOTRA fieldwork in Turku are shared in Finnish in AntroBlogi, a Finnish online media bringing anthropological knowledge to a wider readership. Accessible here: https://antroblogi.fi/2018/10/aistit-muistot-ja-teknologia-kokemuksen-valittajina/
SENSOTRA VISITS BRAZIL – Part Two
ENCOUNTERS FROM THE COAST TO THE MOUNTAINS IN JULY 2018 by Inkeri Aula São Gonçalo de Bação, Itabirito In Brazil as elsewhere the pollution and disappearance of sweet waters and aquifers is a growing problem. In the surroundings on metropolitan Belo Horizonte I visited São Gonçalo de Bação, located in Itabirito. The village lays between […]
SENSOTRA VISITS BRAZIL – Part One
Encounters from the coast to the mountains, July 2018 by Inkeri Aula Anthropological encounters: sharing insights in IUAES, Florianópolis (Santa Catarina), 16/07 – 20/07/2018 The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences IUAES organizes a big conference every five years. SENSOTRA participated on an intense conference week 2018 hosted by the Federal University of Santa […]