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Teaching Anthropology, 2021
In 2019 and 2020 students in an Australian university undertook a short ethnographic exercise; an... more In 2019 and 2020 students in an Australian university undertook a short ethnographic exercise; an observationbased 'journal', with an attunement to the multiplicity of meanings evident in a single space by a range of interlocutors. We emphasised and assessed 'empathy', as a shorthand for the kind of anthropological sensibility we hoped to encourage. By requesting an account that represented an awareness of how 'others' encounter and come to 'know' the world we promoted their adoption of a modality central to the discipline of anthropology. We wanted them to describe the world-the terrain, the stuff of their surroundings-based on their observations of how these others behaved. To couch it in anthropological terms, we wanted them to be attuned to a multiplicity of 'taskscapes', Ingold's term for the mutual constitution of people and places through culturally, politically, economically, and spiritually informed actions ('tasks') (Ingo...
Teaching Anthropology, 2021
In 2019 and 2020 students in an Australian university undertook a short ethnographic exercise; an... more In 2019 and 2020 students in an Australian university undertook a short ethnographic exercise; an observationbased 'journal', with an attunement to the multiplicity of meanings evident in a single space by a range of interlocutors. We emphasised and assessed 'empathy', as a shorthand for the kind of anthropological sensibility we hoped to encourage. By requesting an account that represented an awareness of how 'others' encounter and come to 'know' the world we promoted their adoption of a modality central to the discipline of anthropology. We wanted them to describe the world-the terrain, the stuff of their surroundings-based on their observations of how these others behaved. To couch it in anthropological terms, we wanted them to be attuned to a multiplicity of 'taskscapes', Ingold's term for the mutual constitution of people and places through culturally, politically, economically, and spiritually informed actions ('tasks') (Ingo...