{"title":"Reimagining Disabled Futurities: Of Personhood, Communication, and Intersubjectivity Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India Michele Ilana Friedner, Minnesota, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2022. ix+288 pp. Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Minnesota, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2020. xiii+316 pp.","authors":"Priyasha Choudhary MA, Shubha Ranganathan PhD","doi":"10.1111/etho.12421","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.12421","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This book review essay tries to bring together two extremely pivotal books to understand how we can reimagine dominant modes of communication and how debunking the normative ideas surrounding it helps us to cognize personhood and intersubjectivity better. Michele Friedner's ‘Sensory Futures’ and Wolf-Meyer's ‘Unraveling’ are both critical attempts that try to understand how the sensory and neurological experiences of our body are essentially social, thereby reimagining how we understand personhood and subjectivity. Through a comprehensive analysis of both these texts individually, and in tandem with one another, this book review aims to highlight how we can find pathways to reimagine the body-mind as inherently social and how we can try to build a more inclusive and inhabitable world that is multisensorial and multimodal.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"52 1","pages":"138-142"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140114208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A continuum of “normal” experience: Positioning mental health struggles as human experiences in the university context","authors":"Adrianna Nicole Wiley","doi":"10.1111/etho.12422","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.12422","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores how university students with mental health struggles engage in “illness-identity” work, the process by which an individual resituates their self in relation to their illness, using a phenomenological approach. Grounded in 24 semi-structured interviews with Canadian university students between the ages of 18 and 24 years who self-identify as experiencing mental health struggles, I argue that students do not perform illness-identity work by making the “I Am” or “I Have” illness identity statements commonly cited in the anthropological literature. Instead, these students focus on the phenomenological content of their struggles making what I call “I Experience” statements. In doing so these students normalize their struggles by understanding them as fluid and ephemeral experiences which exist as a continuum, refuting a construction of mental health struggles as discrete entities objectively present or not in the individual body.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"52 2","pages":"324-337"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.12422","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139668155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The epistemology of spirit beliefs By Hans Van Eyghen, London and New York, NY: Routledge. 2023. pp. viii+159","authors":"Vineet Gairola","doi":"10.1111/etho.12419","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.12419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"52 1","pages":"143-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140114361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Singing the goddess into place: Locality, myth, and social change in Chamundi of the hill, a Kannada folk balladBy Caleb Simmons, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2022. pp. 263","authors":"Vineet Gairola","doi":"10.1111/etho.12420","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.12420","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"52 1","pages":"145-146"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139599536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moral conflict in a (post)war story: Narrative as enactment of and reflection on moral injury","authors":"Robin Conley Riner, Bryan D. Carnes","doi":"10.1111/etho.12418","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.12418","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the discursive construction of moral conflict in a military veteran's (post)war story. By closely examining the linguistic details of a single veteran's narrative of war, this article addresses how moral conflict is revealed in shifts among varying modes of morality: from the conventional moral dispositions of the military, in which soldiers are socialized into acting, often violently and without reflection, to conscious ethical reasoning, which soldiers have historically been socialized not to engage in. The analysis of this veteran's narrative, informed by ethnographic research on veterans’ experiences of combat and return after deployment, outlines how structural and linguistic components of the narrative engage shifting modes of moral experience. As such, the article provides a critical discussion of moral injury, as well as a potential model for the study of language and morality.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"52 2","pages":"292-307"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139382898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Teriitutea Quesnot, Émilie Schmitter, Jean Wencélius, Tamatoa Bambridge
{"title":"Moorea lagoon fishers’ mental maps: An exploratory analysis of Polynesian spatial knowledge","authors":"Teriitutea Quesnot, Émilie Schmitter, Jean Wencélius, Tamatoa Bambridge","doi":"10.1111/etho.12416","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.12416","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This empirical study builds upon prior research concerning cultural influences on spatial mental representations in Oceania. A comprehensive examination of 93 mental maps sourced from 59 lagoon fishers of <i>Moorea</i> (French Polynesia) reveals interesting facts about the way they organize and share their spatial knowledge. Firstly, consistent with previous studies across Oceania, Polynesian fishers exhibit a preference for the allocentric perspective when representing their environment. Secondly, they generally rely on marine landmarks for navigation, with a particular emphasis on four entities: the reef barrier, maritime beacons, coral outcrops, and a key chromatic marker — <i>Moana</i> (blue in Tahitian) — indicating the depth of the lagoon. Finally, the factor analysis we conducted highlights two significant facts: (1) a geographical self-censorship, demonstrated by the low presence or even the absence of landmarks useful for locating their fishing spots; (2) a continuum between the surface and the depths of the lagoon, showing that surface fishers (line, net, troll, etc.) have a proven knowledge of seabed topography, whereas underwater speargun fishers also rely on landmarks located above the water.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"52 1","pages":"114-137"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.12416","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139029333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atmospheres: The multisensoriality of spatially extended emotions","authors":"Patrick Eisenlohr","doi":"10.1111/etho.12417","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.12417","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this essay, I introduce an analytic of atmosphere as a way to bridge the gap between the phenomenology of the felt-body and the anthropology of the senses. This analytic of atmospheres as multisensoriality partially aligns with, but also differs from other anthropological approaches to multisensoriality or the anthropology of the senses. Examining the meaningfulness of atmospheres as spatially extended emotions from a neo-phenomenological perspective, I argue that the notion of atmosphere offers advantages for understanding sensory cultural practices such as sounding and lighting. The felt dimensions of these practices often escape full qualification by cultural discourses, but are nevertheless deeply meaningful. Further, I explore how such atmospheric meaningfulness is irreducible to particular single sensory modi. Instead, it rests on diffuse and synesthetic kinds of felt-bodily affectedness with a holistic character. I demonstrate this by way of two ethnographic examples, investigating practices sounding and lighting, respectively, as atmospheric practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"52 1","pages":"37-50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.12417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139029336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Home as the Third Place: Stories of movement among immigrant caregivers in an intercultural Chilean city","authors":"Verónica Mingo, Jayanthi Mistry","doi":"10.1111/etho.12415","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.12415","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parenting practices are inherently related to the sociocultural and material contexts in which children and their caregivers live. Rooted in sociocultural perspectives, this research contributes to the study of contextualized caregiving by ethnographically examining the daily caregiving practices of seven low-income immigrant mothers and their young children. Research participants all live in a precarious material context in a Chilean intercultural city. This study illuminates how caregivers use their understanding of the world to make sense of their realities, both resources and constraints, and actively negotiate with the elements of everyday life. We discuss (a) the mobilizing effect of their hopes and dreams on potential future life (we refer to it as the Third Place), manifested in a constant search for a “better life” and (b) the personal and contextual resources that mothers draw on to provide physical care to their children, despite social constraints and scarcity of material resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"52 1","pages":"68-88"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138560669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In the shadows of gratitude: On mooded spaces of vulnerability and care","authors":"Jason Danely","doi":"10.1111/etho.12414","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.12414","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gratitude is a ubiquitous phenomenon in everyday social interactions, yet it has received relatively little attention within anthropology. Past approaches to gratitude have focused on its practical expressions within exchange relationships. In contrast, this article considers the phenomenology of gratitude as a moral mood. Drawing on ethnographic episodes of gratitude between older care-recipients and their unpaid family carers in Japan, I argue that gratitude generates an aesthetic atmosphere that attunes carer and cared-for to each other. I explore this through the Japanese notion “<i>kage</i>,” or the “shadow,” an atmosphere of shared interdependence and vulnerability that is not reducible to darkness or light, pain, or comfort. In the context of informal care of older people, this ambiguity provides space for sharing complex relational experiences and easing the weight of emotional strain. This Japanese example provides a model of new ways to engage with gratitude ethnographically, particularly in situations involving close care.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"52 1","pages":"20-36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.12414","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138560408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collective moods in Western Isles structures of being","authors":"Marybeth MacPhee PhD","doi":"10.1111/etho.12413","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.12413","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper develops a relational framework to interpret ethnographic data on the way residents of a community-owned estate in the Western Isles of Scotland evaluated and contributed to collective quality of life. The analysis compares conversations with community development professionals and crofters to identify social and cultural structures influencing their contrasting interpretations of locally valued qualities of social attachment, belonging, and community. The framework integrates perspectives from phenomenological anthropology with Heidegger's theory of Being-in-the-world to describe how structures of care, temporality, mood, and discourse influenced the dynamics of sociocultural diversity, interpretations of social relationships, and collective efforts to compose favorable conditions for co-existence in a small population.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"52 1","pages":"51-67"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138523867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}