Enwinding Social Theory: Wind and Weather in Zulu Zionist Sensorial Experiences

South African eucalypts: Health, trees, and atmospheres in the colonial contact zone

“…As part of a project on contemporary Zulu conceptions of health and disease, and uses of soap and disinfectants (cf. Flikke, 2016), I first travelled to the Amathole Museum in King William's Town to do some archival research on a sanitation hysteria that plagued the town during the 1870s. I had discovered that the strong disinfectant Jayes Fluid, patented in England in 1877 and used to combat scarlet fever and other diseases, was at an early stage imported to King William's Town to disinfect public spaces (Laidler and Gelfand, 1971: 362).…”

“…In pre-colonial South Africa the native humid-closed canopy forests never covered more than 1 percent of the territory 2 For an introductory analysis of the cultural significance of smell and olfaction in African societies see Flikke (2016) and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2007, vol. 13, issue supplement s1.…”

Machine Sky: Social and Terrestrial Engineering in a Chinese Weather System

“…Dust storms, as a signature of contemporary meteorological disarray in China, suggest that the geophysical processes that link earth and air depend on environmental and political infrastructures that increasingly demand compensatory reapproximation through technical means (Sloterdijk ). The languages of machines, infrastructures, and engineered worlds allow for a reflection on contemporary weather worlds (Ingold ) as ongoing technopolitical achievements and contribute to a lively anthropological discussion on atmospheric formations and attunements (Choy ; Flikke ; N. Shapiro ; Stewart ).…”

Atmosfærer

“…Jeg mener dette er sannsynlig, samtidig som jeg vil påpeke at det ikke bare er teologiske grunner til at denne oversettelsen ble gjort. Jeg har nylig argumentert for at nåtidige så vel som historiske rituelle praksiser peker i retning av at det har eksistert en lang historie hvor rituelle praksiser har blitt utført på steder som nettopp er eksponert for vind og vaer, og at det er den egenskapen som konstituerer dem som potente rituelle steder (Flikke, 2016a). Deltakerne erfarer kroppslig hvordan vinden griper tak i dem; de hører vinden ule gjennom landska-This article is downloaded from www.idunn.no.…”

“…Implisitt i dette perspektivet på atmosfaere er at luft er et sentralt element i subjektifiseringsprosesser og slik dukker opp i min etnografi fra zulu sionistiske helbredelsesritualer (jf. Flikke, 2016a). Peter Sloterdijk beskrev dette når han påpekte at menneskers vaeren-i-verden, er mer presist uttrykt som en «vaeren-i-luften» (Sloterdijk, 2009: 48).…”