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Accepted Paper:
“The surface chatters, while it’s silent below” – Embodied knowledge and agricultural practice
Áron Bakos
(Babeș-Bolyai University)
Paper Short Abstract:
The paper investigates situated, non-verbal, embodied agricultural knowledge in the face of taxological, logocentric, visually oriented ethnographic descriptions. Besides interpreting my fieldwork experience and phenomenologically oriented findings, I wish to characterize the inherent paradox of past ethnographic practices.
Paper Abstract:
The paper offers a phenomenological understanding of agricultural work. Based on my own experience as a curator and on an ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Arieș valley of Transylvania, I focus on the situated, non-verbal, embodied knowledge surrounding plants and tools, the land and the machinery. I argue that within the logocentric and aesthetically oriented visual framework of morphological catalogues and abstracted ideal types, the experimental aspects of (post)peasant production have been omitted in the classical (Central-Eastern European) ethnological literature. Besides presenting a few insights of my fieldwork, I wish to interpret and contextualize this inherent paradox of the past ethnographic descriptions and museum practices.
Panel
Inte02
Innovation, experience and tradition: writing and unwriting agricultural knowledge
Session 1