Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2022.2139134
Josée Laplace, C. Guastavino
ABSTRACT Sound plays a critical role in the sensory experience of churches. Yet, it has received scant attention from the point of view of visitors in a context where churches are deserted. We report on the analysis of verbalizations of sonic experiences in a church in Montréal. Results show that sound acquires “a life of its own,” abstracted from the sound sources, unlike other everyday listening situations where sounds are experienced as pointers to object or agents who produce sound. The linguistic analysis emphasizes the frequent use of action verbs to describe the “behavior” of sound in space and time and the effects sound has on visitors. In the particular settings of the data collection, where participants became very aware of their own sounds, their attention was displaced to the qualities of the sounds themselves through a more contemplative listening. Church acoustics can also reinforce the impression that sounds are detached from their sources. Sound phenomena acquire a form of agency to directly affect participants’ perceptions, reflections and mood, placing them in a world of its own where time passes more slowly and space functions differently. We discuss the implications of our findings to inform potential future uses of church spaces.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2022.2122256
Fraser Riddell
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2022.2122952
Paula Zambrano
The Milk of Dreams takes its title from a book by Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) in which the Surrealist artist describes a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination. It is a world where everyone can change, be transformed, become something or someone else; a world set free, brimming with possibilities. But it is also the allegory of a century that imposed intolerable pressure on the definition of the self, forcing Carrington into a life of exile: locked up in mental hospitals, an eternal object of fascination and desire, yet also a figure of startling power and mystery, always fleeing the strictures of a fixed, coherent identity. When asked about her birth, Carrington would say she was the product of her mother’s encounter with a machine, suggesting the same bizarre union of human, animal, and mechanical that marks much of her work.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2022.2114267
T. Carter
ABSTRACT This article explores the Cuban sensorium as revealed through children’s baseball practice. The development of physical skills in any sport are painstakingly learned through repetitive practice. The enskillment of such movements are tasted by coaches, athletes and others through a combination of sensory information. In Cuba, the sensing of movement is understood and evaluated through the flavor of movement. How these children develop the requisite “techniques of the body” are only part of the enskillment process; coaches emphasize and evaluate the flavor of children’s movements rather than correctness of their techniques as indicators of enskillment. Thus, the article focuses on the sensorial frame by which learning to move is encouraged, critiqued, and evaluated. Drawing attention to these sensorial frames thereby highlights cultural specificity for sensing oneself and one’s world and the nature of the development of such sensoria.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2022.2142012
Caro Verbeek, I. Leemans, Bernardo Fleming
ABSTRACT Within the field of sensory museology, olfactory approaches are gaining more attention, from curators, heritage communication and education, artists and researchers. However, olfactory museology, conducting and studying experiments with smell in curatorial practices, is suffering from a lack of documentation – both regarding the experiments conducted, and the impact of the approaches. In this paper we report on the development of scented guided tours in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2015–2020): a co-creation between academics, heritage professionals, and the scent industry. We describe 1) the creation of historically informed and artistic scents to accompany works of art, 2) the experimentation with different methods for olfactory storytelling and smell distribution techniques, 3) the development of a methodology for impact measurement (through questionnaires, interviews and observation), and 4) the outcomes of the impact analysis, also taking into account the advantages of olfactory storytelling for people of different abilities, in this case blind people and people with low vision.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2022.2135358
S. Heath
ABSTRACT This paper examines tactile sensory dimensions of immersion in water and is based on ethnographic fieldwork amongst competitive youth swimmers in the South East of England. It argues that youth swimmers’ perceptions of the qualities of water, in the pools where they train and compete, are sensuous productions of embodied knowledges and enskilled movements developed and refined through their swimming practice. Thus, it adds to the growing anthropological literature on the senses and physical movement practices by suggesting that the cultural sensory order developed in competitive swimming privileges touch sense modalities. Swimmers must develop a “feel for the water,” the skills and sensory perceptions to assess and assist their interaction with the medium of water. Learning to feel is an ongoing dialectic process of making sensory knowledge developed through an accumulation of regular immersion and occasional absence. This paper asserts that the making of “feel for the water” is an essential element in youth swimmers’ self formation, incorporating their growing and physically changing bodies as experienced through their immersion in a “mirror” environment in constant motion.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2022.2122693
T. Carter, S. Heath, S. Jacobs, Jasmijn Rana
ABSTRACT Sport is centrally concerned with the human body. Those concerns focus on how bodies move materially in space and in time. In this article, we develop our concept of “Sensory Ecology” to elucidate how one might come to develop and understand the creation of specialist bodily knowledge found in sport. Sensory ecologies are produced through the refinement of enskilled movement of bodily materials in specific spatial and temporal confines. To understand the embodied knowledge that athletes learn, it is crucial to ensure the connections between a body and its environs, the body-in-the-world affirmed via sensory interactions, and the information generated from those interactions are maintained in any research on embodiment, being-in-the-world, and the self. The body, its senses, and its surrounding environs simply cannot be separated from one another. Therefore, a sensory ecology sits in these intersectional coming-togethers of space, time, and material made manifest through the sensing of bodily movement. Throughout this article, we discuss the material of bodies and their sensing of spatialities and temporalities by arguing that our concept of “Sensory Ecology” provides a means for exploring the cultural specificities of sensing the moving and sporting body in particular and ways of being more generally.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2022.2094146
Jasmijn Rana
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss how women learn to use their bodies, move, and become a different kind of being than men. I focus on the embodiment of gender in recreational running enskilment. The materiality of our bodies and the social expectations of girls and women affect their running enskilment. The environment of gendered, racialized, and otherwise minoritized people differ from that of white, cis-gendered men, who often form the base construct in social science research on running enskilment. Studies on the embodied knowledge of movement that are not written from a feminist perspective assume that how people are taught to move is gender-neutral or, worse, gender-less. By zooming on the kinesthesia of running, proprioception in public space, and the sense of being looked at, I critically rethink the sensuous engagement between embodied selves and environments and argue that the often-neglected social structures of an environment are key in understanding the enactment of the self through movement.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-31DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2022.2094145
Sarah M Jacobs
ABSTRACT Based in ethnographic fieldwork among high-performance speed skaters, this paper considers some of the structures and experiences of athlete development and training. As a racing sport, fast times in speed skating matter. Yet time is not simply quantified. It is also felt in various ways. There are qualities to time. Time is taken into the body and expended from the body. Inspired by Nancy Munn’s contributions to temporalization, I explore time’s embodiment, its strategic use, and the moral evaluations of time within speed skating. I further consider how potential underpins various temporal engagements and enactments, including the sequence of athlete development, cycles and rhythms of training and the experience of tapering prior to competition. Both time and potential, I argue, are sensed in the broadest meaning of that term. Lastly, I consider how the timely management of potential demands faith, suggesting that athletes and coaches have much in common with speculators in financial markets.
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