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Writing Anthropology and Such or “Once Mo... — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 22:21:39 +0000

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By: Ann Armbrecht

Ann Armbrecht — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:15:00 +0000

Carole, I’m struck by your definitions of visceral. Part of what I am trying to do in the work I’m writing is to write, literarily, from my organs, tissue, bones through practices I’ve learned in various movement practices: Authentic Movement, Continnuum Movement and Body, Mind, Centering: using the breath, sound, and attention to move from different organ systems, parts of the body. Still writing about the world out there, but trying to do so from another part – or more parts – the world inside. I find it brings a freshness to my writing that often isn’t there, a sense of discovery. Anyway, I’m curious if others experiment with this and, if so, what they’ve found?

Thanks for the insights and the encouragement!

By: Randy McDonald

Randy McDonald — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:24:17 +0000

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing this.

By: Carole McGranahan

Carole McGranahan — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:49:49 +0000

Thanks so much for this piece, Gina, and especially for the encouragement to take risks even when they seem so hard, so impossible, so unreachable for all sorts of reasons and constraints.

The one line that I think provides the bass, in a sense, to the entire piece, and even more so to your entire oeuvre, is this one: “More often than not, I choose to honor the verve that drives my quest to confront the visceral.”

The visceral. Here are the four definitions my online Merriam-Webster dictionary gave:
1. felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body
2. not intellectual
3. dealing with crude or elemental emotions
4. of, relating to, or located on or among the viscera

Exactly some of the places where ethnography–and verve–can be most needed. Just as you say.

By: chelsiwest

chelsiwest — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:11:56 +0000

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Chelsi — thanks for reblogging this post, but we don’t accept reblogging comments in our comments section, so I’ve edited this comment out. Feel free to use a ping back to publicize your post 🙂 -Rex

By: chelsiwest

chelsiwest — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:11:09 +0000

wonderful piece, thank you so much for sharing it

By: Rex

Rex — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:09:24 +0000

I’ve got a theory/ that’s its an ontology/ a dancing ontology/ no something isn’t right here….