TY - JOUR
T1 - Artifacts with Feelings/Feeling Artifacts
T2 - Toward a Notion of Tacit Modalities to Support and Propel Anthropological Research
AU - Rowsell, Jennifer
AU - Abrams, Sandra Schamroth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the American Anthropological Association
PY - 2021/12/3
Y1 - 2021/12/3
N2 - In this article, we consider the notion of tacit modalities as a theory and method for researchers. Based on research studies with individuals across ages and stages of life, we interviewed people about objects that they value, and what pervades all of the stories are tacit, lived properties that objects possess. The research ostensibly sought to extend work on the notion of artifactual literacies and tacit modalities, and, in the end, what stretched the research were sensory, embodied, and non-representational experiences expressed by collaborators in the research. This article focuses on three people’s stories about their felt experiences and sensory-led (and laden) stories associated with objects. To analyze interview data, we apply transdisciplinary theories that offer the reader a syncretic conceptual experience of tacit modalities as a method within ethnographic work to locate sensorial, affective dimensions of objects.
AB - In this article, we consider the notion of tacit modalities as a theory and method for researchers. Based on research studies with individuals across ages and stages of life, we interviewed people about objects that they value, and what pervades all of the stories are tacit, lived properties that objects possess. The research ostensibly sought to extend work on the notion of artifactual literacies and tacit modalities, and, in the end, what stretched the research were sensory, embodied, and non-representational experiences expressed by collaborators in the research. This article focuses on three people’s stories about their felt experiences and sensory-led (and laden) stories associated with objects. To analyze interview data, we apply transdisciplinary theories that offer the reader a syncretic conceptual experience of tacit modalities as a method within ethnographic work to locate sensorial, affective dimensions of objects.
KW - artifacts
KW - ethnography
KW - literacies
KW - literacy studies
KW - materialism
KW - multimodality
KW - sensory engagements
KW - socio-materiality
KW - tacit modalities
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85120579387&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/aeq.12413
DO - 10.1111/aeq.12413
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
AN - SCOPUS:85120579387
SN - 0161-7761
JO - Anthropology and Education Quarterly
JF - Anthropology and Education Quarterly
ER -