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P12a


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Hierarchies of the senses 
Convenor:
Orhan Karagoz (University of Melbourne)
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Chair:
Debra McDougall (University of Melbourne)
Discussant:
Jennifer Biddle (University of New South Wales)
Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Thursday 25 November, -
Time zone: Australia/Sydney

Short Abstract:

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Long Abstract:

This panel proposes a sustained investigation of the methodological implications of the senses for the conduct of anthropological research, the nature of anthropological data and the nature of anthropological representation. Recent work in the Anthropology of the Senses has critiqued treating the classic ‘Western’ senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch as discrete (Howes 1991), proposing instead attention to generalised senses (Geurts 2005) such as, for example, kinaesthesia (Massumi 2002). In this panel, and instead, we seek presentations that pay attention to the privileging of one or a few senses over others within ethnographic practice (Pink 2009). This may be an outcome of disability, such as in my own case as a blind ethnographer a privileging of auditory and olfactory experience. However, it may also be framed by other factors, such as the conscious sensory choices or unconscious sensory predispositions of particular ethnographers, or the centrality of one sense or another within the particular cultures under investigation.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 25 November, 2021, -
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