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, , I propose an emplaced ethnography that attends to the question of

experience by accounting for the relationships between bodies, minds,
and the materiality and sensoriality of the environment (28).
, , [l]t is essential that the sensory ethnographer , , We should be aware
appreciates the cultural and (biographical) that even with extensive
specificity of the sensory meanings and preparation,
modalities people call on and the sets of researchers' own sens
discourses through which they mobilise -ory experiences will
embodied ways of knowing in social contexts most likely still sur-
(32). prise them, sometimes
giving them access to a
, , Learning through practice involves not simply new form of knowing
mimicking others' but creating one's own (52).
emplaced skill and knowing in ways that are
acceptable to others (41 ).

, , This does not mean that the method employed will

determine the level of analytical understanding the
researcher will arrive at, but rather that different
methods take us into other people's worlds
and ask them to reveal their experiences to us
through different routes (57).
, , I treat them [media and technologies] in a way
that goes beyond their status as technologies to
disseminate representations or be used for
communications, but as sensory technologies
with other forms of presence, affordance, and
qualities (67).
, , Ethnographic practice entails our multisensorial
embodied engagements with others (perhaps
through participation in activities or exploring their
understandings in part verbally) and with their
social, material, discursive and sensory
environments (28). lHINK
-ER/lHOUGHT
Nathaniel A Rivers, 2020