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Books by Jonathan S Marion
Visual Research: A Concise Introduction to thinking Visually (Bloomsbury, 2013)
Ballroom: Culture and Costume in Competitive Dance (Berg, 2008)
Articles by Jonathan S Marion
This article explores photography as both social and cultural passport into the image-based world... more This article explores photography as both social and cultural passport into the image-based world of competitive ballroom
dance. First differentiating between the social and cultural accesses facilitated by my photography, I then use
specific images to explore the utility of photography in accessing, understanding, and representing the activity-based
globalization of ballroom’s aesthetic standards and practices across time, place, and context. [Key words: ballroom/
dancesport, ethnographic access, globalization, image-based culture, photography]
This paper identifies organizational challenges faced by Social Science and Humanities (SSH) scho... more This paper identifies organizational challenges faced by Social Science and Humanities (SSH) scholars when
dealing with digital data and media, and suggests improved file naming practices in order to maximize
organization, making files easier to find, more useable, and more easily shared. We argue that such skills
are not formally discussed in the literature and therefore many scholars do not recognize the problem until
they cannot locate a specific file or are sharing files with colleagues. We asked SSH scholars to share their file
naming strategies (or lack thereof ) and we use these narrative anecdotes to discuss common problems and
suggest possible solutions for their general file naming needs.
Conference Presentations by Jonathan S Marion
Exploring Visual Narratives - 2013 American Anthropological Association (Executive Session)
Creating, Crafting, and Conveying Critical Visualizations - 2013 Visual Research Conference (w/Dr. Sara Perry)
Image and Identity: Contextualizing Perception, Performance, and Self - 2013 Society for Psychological Anthropology
Performing Gender in the World of Competitive Ballroom Dance - 2013 Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting (Women’s & Gender Studies Affiliate)
Crafting Dancesport Bodies: Aesthetics and Athletics in Competitive Ballroom - 2013 Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting (Sociology Affiliate)
Contesting Contexts: Negotiating the Interstices of Personal Placement and Professional Practice - 2013 Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting (Anthropology Affiliate)
Exploring Image in/and Ethnography - 2013 Arkansas Sociological & Anthropology Association
Talks by Jonathan S Marion
Ballroom Dancing: Common Perceptions vs. Competitive Practice - Honors College (University of Arkansas)
"Culture" - Eleanor Mann School of Nursing (University of Arkansas)
Images and Understanding: Crafting Evocative Visual Research - Institute for the Medical Humanities, UT Medical Branch (w/Dr. Jerome Crowder)
Papers by Jonathan S Marion
Anthropology News, Sep 1, 2016
Apprenticeship Pilgrimage: Developing Expertise Through Travel and Training
Visual Research: A Concise Introduction to thinking Visually (Bloomsbury, 2013)
Ballroom: Culture and Costume in Competitive Dance (Berg, 2008)
This article explores photography as both social and cultural passport into the image-based world... more This article explores photography as both social and cultural passport into the image-based world of competitive ballroom
dance. First differentiating between the social and cultural accesses facilitated by my photography, I then use
specific images to explore the utility of photography in accessing, understanding, and representing the activity-based
globalization of ballroom’s aesthetic standards and practices across time, place, and context. [Key words: ballroom/
dancesport, ethnographic access, globalization, image-based culture, photography]
This paper identifies organizational challenges faced by Social Science and Humanities (SSH) scho... more This paper identifies organizational challenges faced by Social Science and Humanities (SSH) scholars when
dealing with digital data and media, and suggests improved file naming practices in order to maximize
organization, making files easier to find, more useable, and more easily shared. We argue that such skills
are not formally discussed in the literature and therefore many scholars do not recognize the problem until
they cannot locate a specific file or are sharing files with colleagues. We asked SSH scholars to share their file
naming strategies (or lack thereof ) and we use these narrative anecdotes to discuss common problems and
suggest possible solutions for their general file naming needs.
Exploring Visual Narratives - 2013 American Anthropological Association (Executive Session)
Creating, Crafting, and Conveying Critical Visualizations - 2013 Visual Research Conference (w/Dr. Sara Perry)
Image and Identity: Contextualizing Perception, Performance, and Self - 2013 Society for Psychological Anthropology
Performing Gender in the World of Competitive Ballroom Dance - 2013 Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting (Women’s & Gender Studies Affiliate)
Crafting Dancesport Bodies: Aesthetics and Athletics in Competitive Ballroom - 2013 Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting (Sociology Affiliate)
Contesting Contexts: Negotiating the Interstices of Personal Placement and Professional Practice - 2013 Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting (Anthropology Affiliate)
Exploring Image in/and Ethnography - 2013 Arkansas Sociological & Anthropology Association
Ballroom Dancing: Common Perceptions vs. Competitive Practice - Honors College (University of Arkansas)
"Culture" - Eleanor Mann School of Nursing (University of Arkansas)
Images and Understanding: Crafting Evocative Visual Research - Institute for the Medical Humanities, UT Medical Branch (w/Dr. Jerome Crowder)
Anthropology News, Sep 1, 2016
Apprenticeship Pilgrimage: Developing Expertise Through Travel and Training
Photography for the Field - Part 1: Camera and Photography Basics (registration required)
Anthropological Activism and Visual Ethnography
Anthropology, Mar 25, 2020
Since the development of mechanical visual technologies—such as still and moving photography—some... more Since the development of mechanical visual technologies—such as still and moving photography—some producers and scholars have seen the potential of using these technologies as tools for social improvement and change. Photographers and journalists were the first to wed social justice to visual imagery, as well as early film pioneers like theorist and documentary innovator Dziga Vertov. Anthropologists and ethnographers also saw the benefit adopting visual technology for research early on, but many of the products of this early era were exploitative, stereotypical, and theoretically simplistic. Notable exceptions to this trend included Margaret Mead’s photographic and film work in Bali and beyond and Jean Rouch’s reflexive experimental films which both resulted in sensitive and influential work. The general tide began to change as the technology became more democratic and as wider theoretical discourse began to consider the various impacts of creation, representation, and dissemination. During the 1980s and into the 1990s there was a serious crisis within ethnographic film and the social sciences more widely concerning representations of the Other in Western media. This coincided with video cameras and videotape becoming more widely available commercially, leading to an explosion of visual projects including many that were Collaborative, Participatory, or otherwise aimed at improving the lives of the community or group being studied. The emphasis on collaboration and equal participation of those being studied continues today, and this article describes key threads of current research that continue to explore the intersections of activism and visual ethnography. Almost all regions of the globe have begun to see the establishment of video projects and other visual research with indigenous and other marginalized communities, including a general movement to decolonize museums and visual representations of indigeneity. There has been a growing awareness during this time that the products of indigenous filmmaking could not be thought of solely as products of academic research, but rather as resulting from indigenous perspectives within the context of academic research. This has given rise to major discourses questioning not only the received traditions of production and presentation of indigenous media, but the place of indigenous media within academia and within the international film world more broadly. More recent projects—including work in and with photography, video, multimedia, and museums—have continued to develop collaborative and participatory methods linking the evocative potential of visual ethnography to activist sensibilities including resistance movements, undermining traditional narratives, and community improvement.
3 Judging Ballroom Dance
Dress, Body, Culture
Visual Research, 2020
Multimedia Kulturangebote Multimedia Die Welt durch eine Linse aus einer anderen Perspektive sehe... more Multimedia Kulturangebote Multimedia Die Welt durch eine Linse aus einer anderen Perspektive sehen-das ist in Film-und Fotoseminaren eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Die Studierenden lernen, ihr Umfeld genauer zu betrachten und Ausschnitte zu fokussieren. Die richtige Kameraführung und der perfekte Schnappschuss führen schon zum ersten Erfolgserlebnis. Film und Foto Studierende treffen sich, um Kurzfilme, Reportagen und Musikvideos zu drehen. Im Labor lernen Studierende, ihre Filme zu entwickeln und zu schneiden. Je nach Begebenheit können Studierende im Studentenwerke Kameras ausleihen, Filme produzieren und sich beraten lassen von Drehbuch bis zum Schnitt. Radio und Fernsehen Studentische Belange stehen bei den Redaktionskonferenzen selbstverständlich obenan: Studierende produzieren ihre eigenen Radio-und Fernsehsendungen für den "Unifunk" und andere studentische Sendungen. Meist gibt es auch Seminare mit Themen wie "Einführung in den Radiojournalismus", um den Nachwuchs in die Radio-und Fernseharbeit zu schulen. Kino Eine beliebte Abwechslung zum Studienalltag ist an vielen Hochschulen das Kinoprogramm. Der studentische Alltag wird unterbrochen, die Zuschauer tauchen ein in eine Welt von Gefühlen und Geschichten. Studierende erarbeiten für Studierende und Gäste ein buntes Programm, in dem sowohl Mainstream-Filme als auch cineastische Raritäten gezeigt werden.
Photography
Visual Research, 2020
Starting to Think Visually
Visual Research, 2020
The Ethics of Images
Visual Research, 2020
Dance Lessons: Performance as Engaged Experiential Embodiment
As both scholar and dancer, Jonathan S. Marion has studied and taught a variety of partnered-danc... more As both scholar and dancer, Jonathan S. Marion has studied and taught a variety of partnered-dance forms including ballroom, salsa, and Brazilian zouk throughout the USA, Europe, and in Brazil. Based in his research concerning how different dance styles index different attitudes, understandings, and values relating to the body, touch, posture, and movement, he has developed a variety of classroom exercises to facilitate students’ understandings of culture as embodied. In this chapter, he describes the pedagogical value of four such exercises—concerning body posture, non-verbal greetings, in-class demonstrations, and ethnography-based skits—and the utility of each for helping students develop insights and build understandings in ways that purely textual representations cannot. Including students’ experiences and perspectives in describing how he uses each exercise, Jonathan highlights the role of experiential engagement in helping students develop more holistic and nuanced anthropological understandings.
Expressing Ethnographic Experience: Experimenting with Cultural Evocation
Negotiating Identity and Belonging
Image and identity: Contextualizing perception, performance, and self
PsycEXTRA Dataset
Principios y estrategias de educación abierta para la innovación docente Actividad 5: Conclusión ... more Principios y estrategias de educación abierta para la innovación docente Actividad 5: Conclusión y proyección 2 CREATIVE COMMONS Usted es libre para compartir y reutilizar bajo las siguientes condiciones: ATRIBUCIÓN Debe reconocer los créditos de la obra de la manera especificada por el autor o el licenciador (pero no de una manera que sugiera que tiene su apoyo o apoyan el uso de la obra). NO COMERCIAL Usted no puede utilizar esta obra para fines comerciales. COMPARTIR IGUAL Si usted altera, transforma o crea sobre esta obra, sólo podrá distribuir la obra derivada resultante bajo una licencia idéntica a ésta. OportUnidad es un proyecto de investigación-acción con el objetivo de promover la adopción de prácticas educativas abiertas (PEA) en América Latina. Socios y Apoyo: El proyecto Oportunidad está compuesto por dos grupos de socios. Un grupo está conformado por ocho universidades de América Latina:
SVA Workshop: Crafting Visual Arguments
Apprenticeship Pilgrimage and the Production of Embodied Expertise
Society for Humanistic Anthropology (Sha) Board Meeting
Digital Media and the Production of Anthropology: A Discussion on Visual Ethics (Part 1: Privacy, Access, Control, Exposure)
Anthropology Now
Sharing graphs are a local and asynchronous implementation of lambda-calculus beta-reduction (or ... more Sharing graphs are a local and asynchronous implementation of lambda-calculus beta-reduction (or linear logic proof-net cut-elimination) that avoids useless duplications. Empirical benchmarks suggest that they are one of the most efficient machineries, when one wants to fully exploit the higher-order features of lambda-calculus. However, we still lack confirming grounds with theoretical solidity to dispel uncertainties about the adoption of sharing graphs. Aiming at analysing in detail the worst-case overhead cost of sharing operators, we restrict to the case of elementary and light linear logic, two subsystems with bounded computational complexity of multiplicative exponential linear logic. In these two cases, the bookkeeping component is unnecessary, and sharing graphs are simplified to the so-called "abstract algorithm". By a modular cost comparison over a syntactical simulation, we prove that the overhead of shared reductions is quadratically bounded to cost of the naive implementation, i.e. proof-net reduction. This result generalises and strengthens a previous complexity result, and implies that the price of sharing is negligible, if compared to the obtainable benefits on reductions requiring a large amount of duplication.
Translating Multisensory Experience: An Introduction
Anthropology News, 2009