Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
Learning to Embody the Radically Empirical
Thursday November 24, 2016
ANSO 134
11:30 – 1:30 pm
Event Poster: PDF
Denise Nuttall
Abstract:
Cultural anthropology has privileged the concept of ‘experience’ over that of ‘performance’ and as ethnographers we have also privileged the ethnographic text and inscription over the act(s) of fieldwork or the ‘performances’ of ethnography. Although we have made some improvements toward a different kind of anthropology, one which is embodied, the investigations of the body and performance have ultimately remained on the margins of the discipline. Drawing from my ethnographic-participant fieldwork with North Indian tabla players and the teaching of ethnomusicology labs at an American University, I argue for a turn to what Sarah Pink (2009) has called sensory ethnography.
About the speaker:
Denise Nuttall is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Ethnomusicology & Chair, Anthropology, Ithaca College, Visiting Scholar South Asia Program, Cornell University.
