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This bold agenda-setting title continues to spearhead interdisciplinary, multisensory research into experience, knowledge and practice. Drawing on an explosion of new, cutting edge research Sarah Pink uses real world examples to bring this innovative area of study to life. She encourages us to challenge, revise and rethink core components of ethnography including interviews, participant observation and doing research in a digital world. The book provides an important framework for thinking about sensory ethnography stressing the numerous ways that smell, taste, touch and vision can be interconnected and interrelated within research. Bursting with practical advice on how to effectively conduct and share sensory ethnography this is an important, original book.
Principles for sensory ethnography : Perception, place, knowing, memory and imagination
Principles for sensory ethnography : Perception, place, knowing, memory and imagination
In this chapter I outline a set of principles for doing sensory ethnography through a focus on questions of perception, place, knowing, memory and imagination. I propose that one of the goals of the sensory ethnographer is to seek to know places in other people’s worlds that are similar to how they are known by those people. In doing so we aim to come closer to understanding how other people experience, remember and imagine. This perspective, while rooted in social anthropology, is interdisciplinary since it also draws from theoretical approaches developed in human geography and philosophy and provides a theoretical focus for design ethnography. To frame this perspective I outline a re-thinking of ...
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