Burdening visions: the haunting of the unseen in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Louw, Maria

doi:10.1007/s11562-017-0403-9

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“…Moreover, Grøn offers a rich ethnographic analysis of obesity in which she renders Waldenfels' notion of responsivity into a responsive self (Grøn, 2017a(Grøn, , 2017b(Grøn, , 2022. Louw argues that the esoteric experiences of women in Kyrgyzstan may be seen as an example of radical alienness that casts doubt on interpretation itself (Louw, 2019), and Meinert and Whyte (2017) analyze processes of violence and trauma in northern Uganda through Waldenfels' phenomenology (Meinert & Whyte, 2017). Furthermore, in her analysis of African American families, Mattingly has shown how particular moments not only call for a response but how their analysis can be a valuable entry point for ethics more broadly (Mattingly, 2018b).…”

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Culture as response

Schnegg

2024

Ethos

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To explain cultural diversity, many theories refer to the social construction of reality. In this telling, we frame the world to make it meaningful. In my analysis of what people in Namibia and Germany know about “SARS‐Cov‐2” and “climate change,” I propose an anti‐constructivist alternative. Drawing on the work of the phenomenologist Bernhard Waldenfels, I argue that experience comes first and exceeds language and the conceptual and symbolic orders we use to describe it. Waldenfels refers to this excess as “the alien” (das Fremde). This alienness calls us and demands a response. Only by responding, do we make the world meaningful. Since the alien is the excess to a particular order it becomes important to explore how orders are applied in situations. To explain this, I draw on recent developments in “4E” cognition that describe the mind‐world relation as fourfold intertwined: embedded, embodied, extended, and enacted. Combining Waldenfels’ responsive phenomenology and “4E” cognition thus allows it to be shown how knowledge emerges as an enactive response to the demands situations create. I conclude by showing how this opens up new possibilities for addressing the plurality and situatedness of knowledge in anthropology.

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Culture as response

Schnegg

2024

Ethos

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“…Drawing inspiration from philosophy and psychoanalysis, a growing anthropological literature points to the limitations of analyses that focus merely on the socially manifest while neglecting more subdued dimensions of human existence (e.g., Crapanzano 2006;Desjarlais 2018;Herzfeld 2015;Stevenson 2014;Throop 2010). The present article is inspired by this literature on the latent and subdued, as well as by recent anthropological scholarship on ghosts and haunting (e.g., Good 2019;Lincoln and Lincoln 2015;Louw 2019;Meinert 2020;Pinto 2018). 3 I have based the concept of spectral kinship on existing anthropological scholarship on kinship and relatedness.…”

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Spectral kinship

Gammeltoft

2021

American Ethnologist

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Endurance is a key term used by women in contemporary Vietnam to characterize the moral persistence that their marital lives demand. Accounting for women's endurance requires, as fieldwork in Hanoi indicates, ethnographic attention to how kinship can be temporally and spatially capricious, exceeding the immediately manifest. The concept of spectral kinship aims to capture these latent aspects of kinship and their groundings in people's imaginative lives. Defining relatedness as an imaginal accomplishment, an analytic of spectral kinship draws attention to aspects of social existence that are neither “real” nor “delusional” yet socially powerful nevertheless. Approaching Vietnamese women's endurance through the lens of spectral kinship highlights the invisible, imaginal efforts that women make to cope with the vulnerabilities and contingencies of kinship, thereby bringing into analysis crucial yet often undervalued forms of gendered kin‐work. [domestic distress, endurance, gender, imaginal, hauntology, kinship, spectrality, Vietnam]

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Staying behind: Divine presence, virtuous emplacement, and sabr at the end of life among older Kyrgyz Muslims

Louw

2024

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

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Burdening visions: the haunting of the unseen in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Culture as response

Culture as response

Spectral kinship

Staying behind: Divine presence, virtuous emplacement, and sabr at the end of life among older Kyrgyz Muslims

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