Ethnography and the senses: Challenges and possibilities

Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-35

  Sparkes, Andrew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Hearing; Representation; Senses; Smell; Taste; Touch; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449510694     PISSN: 19398441     EISSN: 1939845X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19398440802567923     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Allen Collinson, J., 2008. Running the routes together: corunning and knowledge in action. Journal of contemporary ethnography, 37 (1), 38-61.
2. Back, L., 2003. Sounds in the crowd. In: M. Bull and L. Black, eds. The auditory culture reader. Oxford: Berg, 311-327.
3. Bull, M. and Back, L., 2003. Introduction: into sound. In: M. Bull and L. Black, eds. The auditory culture reader. Oxford: Berg, 1-18.
4. Carless, D. and Sparkes, A., 2008. The physical activity experiences of men with serious mental illness: three short stories. Psychology of sport and exercise, 9, 191-210.
5. Classen, C., 1993. Worlds of sense: exploring the senses in history and across cultures. London: Routledge.
6. Classen, C., 1997. Engendering perceptions: gender ideologies and sensory hierarchies in Western history. Body and society, 3 (2), 1-19.
7. Classen, C., 1998. The color of angels: cosmology, gender and aesthetic imagination. London: Routledge.
8. Classen, C., 2005. Fingerprints: writing about touch. In: C. Classen, ed. The book of touch. Oxford: Berg, 1-9.
9. Classen, C., Howes, D., and Synnott, A. 1994. Aroma: the cultural history of smell. London: Routledge.
10. de Garis, L., 1999. Experiments in pro wrestling. Sociology of sport journal, 17 (1), 65-74.
11. Denison, J., 1996. Sport narratives. Qualitative inquiry, 2 (3), 351-362.
12. Denison, J. and Markula, P., eds., 2003. Moving writing: crafting movement and sport research. New York: Peter Lang.
13. Denison, J. and Reinhart, R., 2000. Introduction: imagining sociological narratives. Sociology of sport journal, 17 (1), 1-4.
14. Durrant, P. and Kennedy, E., 2007. Sonic sport: sound art in leisure research. Leisure studies, 29, 181-194.
15. Downey, G., 2005. Learning capoeira. New York: Oxford University Press.
16. Falk, P., 1994. The consuming body. London: Sage.
17. Feld, S., 1996. Waterfalls of song: an acoustemology of place resounding in Bsavi, Papua New Guinea. In: S. Feld and K. Basso, eds. Senses of place. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 91-135.
18. Ford, N. and Brown, D., 2005. Surfing and social theory. London: Routledge.
19. Hall, T., Lashua, B., and Coffey, A. 2008. Sound and the everyday in qualitative research. Qualitative inquiry, 14 (6), 1019-1040.
20. Hargreaves, J. and Vertinsky, P., 2007. Introduction. In: J. Hargreaves and P. Vertinsky, eds. Physical culture, power, and the body. London: Routledge, 1-24.
21. Hockey, J., 2006. Sensing the run: the senses and distance running. Senses and society, 1 (2), 183-202.
22. Hockey, J. and Allen Collinson, J., 2007. Grasping the phenomenology of sporting bodies. International review for the sociology of sport, 42 (2), 115-131.
23. Howes, D., 1991. Sense and non-sense in contemporary ethnographic practice and theory. Culture, 11 (2), 65-76.
24. Howes, D., 2004. Sensual relations. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
25. Howes, D., ed., 2005. Empire of the senses. London: Berg.
26. Jones, R., 2006. Dilemmas, maintaining ‘face’, and paranoia: an average coaching life. Qualitative inquiry, 12 (2), 1012-1021.
27. Krane, V. and Baird, S., 2005. Using ethnography in applied sport psychology. Journal of applied sport psychology, 17, 87-107.
28. Mellor, P. and Shilling, C., 1997. Re-forming the body. London: Sage.
29. Monaghan, L., 2001. Bodybuilding, drugs and risk. London: Routledge.
30. Purdy, L., Potrac, P., and Jones, R. 2008. Power, consent and resistance: an autoethnography of competitive rowing. Sport, education and society, 13 (3), 319-336.
31. Ree, J., 1999. I see a voice. London: Harper Collins.
32. Rice, T., 2003. Soundselves: an acoustemology of sound and self in the Edinburgh Royal infirmary. Anthroplogy today, 19 (4), 4-9.
33. Rodaway, P., 2004. Sensuous geographies: body, sense and place. London: Routledge.
34. Sands, R., 2002. Sport ethnography. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press.
35. Sparkes, A., 2002a. Telling tales in sport and physical activity: a qualitative journey. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press.
36. Sparkes, A., 2002b. Fictional representations: on difference choice and risk. Sociology of sport journal, 19, 1-24.
37. Sparkes, A., 2003a. Bodies, identities, selves: autoethnographic fragments and reflections. In: J. Denison and P. Markula, eds. ‘Moving writing’: crafting movement and sport research. New York: Peter Lang, 51-76.
38. Sparkes, A., 2003b. From performance to impairment: a patchwork of embodied memories. In: J. Evans, B. Davies, and J. Wright, eds. Body knowledge and control. London: Routledge, 157-172.
39. Sparkes, A., 2004. Reflections on an embodied sport and exercise psychology. In: R. Stelter and K. Roessler, eds. New approaches to exercise and sport psychology. Oxford: Meyer & Meyer Sport, 31-54.
40. Sparkes, A., 2008. Sport and physical education: embracing new forms of representation. In: J. Knowles and A. Cole, eds. Handbook of arts in qualitative research. London: Sage, 653-664.
41. Sparkes, A. and Douglas, K., 2007. Making the case for poetic representations: an example in action. Sport psychologist, 21, 170-189.
42. Sparkes, A., et al., 2003. Poetic representations in sport and physical education: insider perspectives. Sport, education and society, 8 (2), 153-177.
43. Stoller, P., 1989. The taste of ethnographic things. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
44. Stoller, P., 1997. Sensuous scholarship. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
45. Wacquant, L., 2005. Body and soul: notebooks of an apprentice boxer. Oxford: Oxford University Press.