Wie geht Kultur unter die Haut - und wie kann man dies beobachtbar machen?

Niewöhner, Jörg; Kehl, Christoph; Beck, Stefan

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“…The interplay of senses, their combinations and recombinations, the connections or interfaces between sensory perceptions, bodily practices and materialities need to be considered when researching sport and the senses. In line with current ethnological studies on such interfaces (Niewöhner et al 2015), we suggest that further research is necessary to shed light on the specific processes during which sensory configurations shift, are modified or made explicit.…”

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Sensing Athletes: Sensory Dimensions of Recreational Endurance Sports

Groth

Krahn

2017

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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Sport has become increasingly popular with recreational athletes over the last couple of decades. This has only gained minimal attention so far from scholars interested in the relations between recreational sports and everyday culture. With this paper, we seek to contribute to this field by scrutinising the sensory dimensions of recreational sport. Rather than probing into or highlighting isolated senses, we look at sensory dimensions understood as a combination of different, non-separable sensory experiences featured in recreational endurance sports. We are interested in how the senses play a role for recreational endurance athletes in running, triathlon and cycling both in training and competition. We start by examining how cultural and social dimensions are inextricably linked to doing sports. Secondly, we show how different configurations of the senses and their communicative mediation are contingent on sport disciplines, specific settings, technology, development and change as sensory careers over time. Thirdly, we discuss the kinaesthetic dimensions of doing sports in relation to the senses and the role of atmospheres. We conclude by arguing that highlighting specific senses by athletes is a cultural practice that calls for a holistic analysis of senses in sport, and outline some methodological implications for research on the senses. Going to the gym, attending yoga classes, jogging or cycling are part of everyday routines for many people, permeating everyday practices and shaping parts of everyday culture. Being a member of a fitness studio, a local sports club, participating in marathons or cycling races, as well as being physically active in general, has become an integral part of everyday routines and a broad spectrum of lifestyles. Advertisements on TV, lifestyle reports in magazines and self-presentations in social media feature the ideal of the active sportsman and -woman; health insurance institutions and health ministries foster these images as benefits claimed from an active lifestyle. Rather than having to justify oneself for doing sport, one has to justify oneself for not doing sport. Endurance sports take up a considerable share of such sporting activities and images of fitness and healthiness. The lunch run at work, the bike ride with a local club in the evenings, 5K races or city marathons, as well as sports holidays, such as cycling vacations or training camps (Strüver 2010) -endurance sports like these have become a frequent and important part of everyday culture, shaping leisure time as well as perceptions of the self (Krahn and Groth 2017). As European ethnologist Wolfgang Kaschuba (1989: 154) argued more than two decades ago, "sportivity" as a "social pattern of behavior and interpretation" has become "omnipresent" and "taken for granted". This image still holds: runners, cyclists and other recreational athletes in public spaces are perceived as normal, and mega events, such as city marathons, are a common part of urban event calendars (Berking and Neckel 1993;Müller 2015). Pra...

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Sensing Athletes: Sensory Dimensions of Recreational Endurance Sports

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Krahn

2017

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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“…Anthropological as well as sociological analyses stop at the skin. What is beyond is left to the natural sciences; it remains by and large unexplored how the social or the cultural goes under the skin and 'into' the body (Niewöhner et al 2008) or how bodily characteristics shape (inter)actions.…”

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“…It asks how culture and (social) practices reconfigure 'the use patterns of the brain' (Donald 1991, p. 14;Tomasello 2002), linking human biological evolution and human cultural history in a fashion that allows to reconcile the obvious biological unity of mankind with findings that show diversities in actual cognitive structures shaped by culturally diverse practices-be it speaking different languages (Vogeley and Roepstorff 2009) or learning to dance Capoeira (Downey 2012). Here, culture is thought to go 'under the skin' and 'into the brain' (Niewöhner et al 2008), suggesting cross-cultural research methods for inquiries into neurological plasticity that might provide an antidote to essentialism, both universal and particular (Lende and Downey 2012).…”

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Embodying Practices: The Human Body as Matter (of Concern) in Social Thought

Niewöhner

Beck

2017

Methodological Reflections on Practice Oriented Theories

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Recent developments in molecular biology and the neurosciences on body-environment interaction and interdependence have led the natural sciences to prominently challenge the social sciences to refurbish some of the central elements of their theoretical apparatus and enter into joined empirical research. In the neurosciences, and departing from older perspectives, perception, cognition and knowledge are increasingly seen as integral elements of action, dynamically situating/embedding 'cognitive agents' in their socio-cultural-natural environments. Likewise, recent research in epigenetics suggests that bodily practices, shaped by their social and material environments within which they are performed, imprint a body that becomes highly susceptible to both past 'experiences' of and to present changes in its social and material environment. In this chapter, we critically review the research (practices) that prompted this challenge and discuss how it affects, but does not consider, social theories of interaction, habituation and inheritance. In a second step, we develop a social and practice theory on the basis of a co-laborative research agenda of 'embodied practice' that stresses the somatic context, performativity, historicity and dynamic situativity of embedded bodies. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and methodological implications of such an endeavour.

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2016

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Wie geht Kultur unter die Haut - und wie kann man dies beobachtbar machen?

Cited by 3 publications

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Sensing Athletes: Sensory Dimensions of Recreational Endurance Sports

Sensing Athletes: Sensory Dimensions of Recreational Endurance Sports

Embodying Practices: The Human Body as Matter (of Concern) in Social Thought

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