INTRO...................... 1-4SCHEDULE DAY 1.............5-8SCHEDULE DAY 2...........9-13SOUNDWALKS X 4..............14-15ABSTRACTS.................16-24SPONSORS & PATRONAGE...............25

____Organizer: Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at A. Mickiewicz University, Poznao

____People: prof. Waldemar Kuligowski, dr Agata Stanisz, Adrianna Koralewska, Agata Kochaniewicz, Anna Adamowicz

____Cooperation: Stowarzysznie Inner Art, Galeria Szyperska, GOKO Japanese Restaurant

• Place: Galeria Szyperska(II floor), ul. Szyperska 2 , 610-745 Poznao

• Time: from 10.00 a.m. till 7.30 p.m

• Sponsors: GOKO Japanese Restaurant, Rada Miasta Poznania

• Media patronage: Polskie Radio Merkury, Take-Me, Radio Afera, MM Moje Miasto Poznao, Podotykaj sobie Poznao

• Two days of intellectual and multisensorial experiences. Two days of event where science and performance art meets. The conference with innovative formula with taste-smell installations, instrumental pleasures, deprivation, immersions and soundwalks entourage.

Day1: discussions__lecturers from Amsterdam, Kopenhaga, Berlin, Budapest, Munich, Warszawa, Łódź, Lublin, Wrocław__sixteen narrations about senses__wanders to Brasil, India, Columbia, Madagascar

Day2: sensorial practices__bodymotion workshop__listening in the darkness__instrumental tunes__4x soundwalks

• Dwa dni intelektualnych i wielozmysłowych doświadczeo. Dwa dni działao na styku nauki i performensu. Konferencja ma innowatorską formułę – będą jej towarzyszyd smakowo-zapachowe instalacje, instrumentalne przyjemności, deprywacje, immersje i spacery dźwiękowe.

Dzieo 1: debaty: goście z Amsterdamu, Kopenhagi, Berlina, Budapesztu, Monachium, Warszawy, Łodzi, Lublina, Wrocławia; 16 opowieści o zmysłach; wędrówki do Brazylii, Indii, Kolumbii i na Madagaskar.

Dzieo 2: zmysłowe praktyki: warsztaty ruchowe, słuchanie w ciemności, instrumentalne brzmienia i 4x spacery dźwiękowe

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Our lecturers

dr Jarema Drozdowicz (Faculty of Educational Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznao, Poland)

dr Agata Stanisz (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznao, Poland)

prof. Mattijs P. J. van de Port (Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Trine Thygaard-Nielsen (Institute of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

PhD-student Katarzyna Wala (Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, at University of Wrocław, Poland)

Alexander Chaplin (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Alejandro Jaramillo (Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)

Therese Kjellerup Thorstholm (Institute of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

PhD-student Tanja Kubes (Institute for Ethnology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany )

Trine Thygaard-Nielsen (Institute of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

dr Magdalena Dąbrowska (Institute of Cultural Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland)

dr Małgorzata Rygielska (Instytut Nauk o Kulturze at University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)

PhD-student Karolina Marcinkowska (Ethnology and Anthropology Institute, Warsaw University, Poland)

Agata Kochaniewicz, Anna Adamowicz (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznao, Poland)

PhD-student Anna Kubisztal (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at University of Lodz, Poland)Zsuzsanna Kunt (Eötvös Loránd Science University, Budapest, Hungary)

Adrianna Koralewska (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznao, Poland)

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DAY 1/DZIEO 1

• APRIL 26/26 kwietnia 2012

• 10.00 a.m. – 8.00 p.m.

• Galeria Szyperska (II floor),

ul. Szyperska 2 , 61-745 Poznao

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_____10.00-10.30: Registration__________10.30-10.45: Opening rites: Associate

Professor Jacek Schmidt _____

PART I: 10.45-12.30chaired by Associate Professor Jacek Schmidt

• 10.45 -11.05: dr Jarema Drozdowicz (Faculty of Educational Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznao, Poland): SEEING IS BELIEVING. ANTHROPOLOGICAL VISIONS OF CULTURE

• 11.05 -11.25: dr Agata Stanisz (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznao, Poland): DE-VISUALIZING ANTHROPOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE. MANIFESTO

• 11.25-12.15: prof. Mattijs P. J. van de Port (Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands): FRUIT PROJECT: SAVOURING BRAZILIAN FRUITS

• 12.15-12.30: DICUSSION• 12.30-12.45: COFFEE BREAK

PART II: 12.45- 14.00chaired by prof. Waldemar Kuligowski

• 12.45-13.05: Trine Thygaard-Nielsen (Institute of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark) TASTING THE GENERATIONAL CONFLICT. AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF FOOD INDUCED FLEXIBILITY BETWEEN ANDALUSIAN GENERATIONS IN THE UPBRINGING OF MINORS.

• 13.05-13.25: Phd-student Katarzyna Wala (Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, at University of Wrocław, Poland): DO YOU FEEL THE BORDELINE? ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE SENSES AND DOMESTIC SPACE

• 13.25-13.45: Alexander Chaplin (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands): COUCHSURFING: SENSUAL ENCOUNTERS WITH AUTHENTICALLY ‘SENSE-ABLE’ OTHERNESS

• 13.45-14.00: DICUSSION• 14.00-14.15: COFFEE BREAK

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PART III: 14.15-15.30chaired by prof. prof. Mattijs P. J. van de Port

• 14.15-14.35: Alejandro Jaramillo (Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany): WHOSE SCARRED SENSES ARE THEY ANYWAY?: THE POLITICS AND PO-ETHICS OF AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE SENSES AMONG COLOMBIAN VICTIMS.

• 14.35-14.55: Therese Kjellerup Thorstholm (Institute of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark): THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE SENSES: GETTING IN TOUCH WITH FIELDWORK

• 14.55-15.15: Phd-student Tanja Kubes (Institute for Ethnology atthe Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany ): FIELDWORK ON HIGH HEELS: HOSTESSES AND THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE FEMALE BODY

• 15.15-15.30: DISCUSSION• 15.30-16.30: LUNCH BREAK/SUSHI ART BY

GOKO Japanese Restaurant

• GOKO Japanese Restaurant is an unusual place created by fascination with Japanese culture. Our actions are carried out with Japanese professionalism. Perfection of The Land of Cherry Blossom is were visible in our undertakings at every turn. Our motto is: PASSION and ART.

ul. Woźna 13 61-777 Poznao61 639 06 39

www.goko.com.pl

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PART IV: 16.30-17.45chaired by dr Agata Stanisz

• 16.30-16.50: dr Magdalena Dąbrowska (Institute of Cultural Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland): JOURNEY TO INDIA: RECOLLECTING SENSORIAL EXPERIENCE

• 16.50 -17.10: dr Małgorzata Rygielska (Instytut Nauk o Kulturze at University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland):

• BRÉSIL AND GRÉSILLER. TRISTES TROPIQUESAND FIELDWORK AS SENSORY EXPERIENCE

• 17.10-17.30: Phd-student Karolina Marcinkowska (Ethnology and Anthropology Institute, Warsaw University, Poland): RESEARCHING THE INVISIBLE – KALANURI CULT IN MAHAJANGA, MADAGASCAR.

• 17.30-17.45: DISCUSSION• 17.45-18.00: COFFEE BREAK

PART V: 18.00-19.35chaired by dr Jarema Drozdowicz

• 18.00-18.20: Agata Kochaniewicz, Anna Adamowicz (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznao, Poland): CROWD, NOISE, STENCH. UNPLEASANT EMPIRICAL EXPERIENCE IN ANTHROPOLOGY FIELDWORK

• 18.20-18.40: Anna Kubisztal (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at University of Lodz, Poland): THE SOUNDS OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA - JOURNEY WITH DR IÑIGO SÁNCHEZ

• 18.40-19.00: Zsuzsanna Kunt (Eötvös Loránd Science University, Budapest, Hungary): BLINDNESS AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM

• 19.00-19.20: Adrianna Koralewska (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznao, Poland): SHIFTING SENSORIUM TRAINING AS A GIFT OF NOTHING

• 19.20-19.50: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS

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DAY 2/DZIEO 2

• APRIL 27/27 kwietnia 2012

• 10.00 a.m. – 7.30 p.m.

• Galeria Szyperska (II floor), ul. Szyperska 2 , 610-745 Poznao

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• 10.00-12.00: Adrianna Koralewska , Body Laboratory (Workshop)

• 12.15-14.45: Roman Mendez, Sound & Noise Pleasure (Performance)

• 14.45-15.45: Maciej Werc, Taste and Pleasure Performance (lunch break/woking)

• 16.00-18.00: Rafał Kołacki, Agata Stanisz, Katarzyna Wala, Hubert Wioczyk, Soundwalk x 4 (Immersive Performance)

• 18. 15-19.20: Adam Kaczanowski, Thumbelina. Tunnel, (Literary Performance)

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10.00-12.00: Adrianna Koralewska , Body Laboratory (Workshop)

***Adrianna Koralewska (Poland), performingarts & physical theatre artist, director,choreographer, contemporary dance, movementand certified yoga teacher. She received heractor's training at the Theatre Training andResearch Programme (TTRP), founded by thelate Singaporean theatre doyen - Kuo Pao Kun.She is the first non-Asian actor-performerparticipating in TTRP. Awarded the GeorgetteChen TTRP Scholarship Fund. She worked withWilliam Sun Hui Zhu (CN), Kok Heng Leun (SG),Phillip Zarilli (US/UK), John Clark (AU), AarneNeeme (AU), Leisa Campbell (AU), Zhuo Ming(Taiwan), He Bing Zhu (CN), Robert Draffin (AU),Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial Butoh Troupe (JP),Daisuke Yoshimoto (JP), John Salzer (AU) –technical and theatre production teacher, Asiantraditional theatre masters – Sardono W Kusumo(Indonesia), Yoshimasa Kanze (JP), RichardEmmert (US/JP), Li Qiu Ping (CN), N.Yagna Prabha(India).She worked full time as a Dance &Movement, Musical and Drama Teacher inShanghai. From 2002, Ada is conducting theatreand drama workshops for young people also inpolish theatre and culture centers. AwardedCreative Scholarship given by Polish Minister ofCulture Polish – Waldemar Dąbrowski (2003) todevelop and run her teaching program of ThePractical Interdisciplinary Theatre Workshops inPoland.

12.15-14.45: Roman Mendez, Sound & Noise Pleasure (Performance)

***Roman Mendez (Mexico), a great guitar playerand luthier from Xico, Veracruz-Llave. He moved toPoland to live and create his music. During theconference he will present a short PerformanceSounds & Noise Pleasures with his handmadeinstruments. Your sense of hearing will be stimulated.

14.45-15.45: Maciej Werc, Taste and PleasurePerformance (lunch break/woking)

***Maciej Werc (Poland), taste and spacearchitect, a vegetarian who using wok, unique blendsof herbs, spices and only veggies will create for us adizzying variety of flavors inspired by asian recipes. wewill smell and maybe taste – from the deep, earthyflavors of a chinese stir-fry to the bright, fresh flavorsof a thai curry. we guarantee an awakening of yoursenses.

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16.00-18.00: Rafał Kołacki, Agata Stanisz, Katarzyna Wala, Hubert Wioczyk, Soundwalk x 4 (Immersive

Performance)

*** Rafał Kołacki (Poland). Archeologist and ethnologist, sociology PhD-student, musician and culture animator. His scientific interests extend from archeimusicology,to history of Polish punk rock and anthropology of sound. He explores cities sonosphere. As an artist he plays percussion in hardcore band Stagnation Is Death and acoustic formation Hati. Author of audiovisual and electroacoustic performences. He used to play with Jonem Zornem i Z’EVem. Co-organizer of Soundart Festival CoCArt and co-author of Na falach Martenotabroadcast. http://www.rafalkolacki.com/polski.html

*** Agata Stanisz (Poland). Anthropologist, fieldrecordist, acoustemologist, blogger, photo-performer and videomaker. Assistant professor in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University. http://www.miastodzwiekow.blogspot.com/; http://transportodrone.tumblr.com/;

http://www.palimpsestmaps.amu.edu.pl/

*** Katrzyna Wala (Poland). Ehnologist, culture animator, sociologist and blogger. PhD-student in Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences at University of Wrocław. She coordinates projects: Fonosfera –anthropology of the senses and Etno-Arty. http://stosowana.wordpress.com/; http://fonosferra.wordpress.com/; http://pl-pl.facebook.com/pages/Etno-Arty/166546956699422

*** Hubert Wioczyk (Poland). Sound artist and performer. He conducts Urinatorium project. He is a member of an electro-acoustic band, kakofoNIKT, and also cooperates with such musicians as Jeff Gburek, Piotr Tkacz (in a project Revue svazu českých architektů), Patryk Lichota, Roman Brombosz and Mojomat. In his performances uses tools, metal and plastic scraps, sine-wave tone generator, field recordings, dictaphones, his own (uh)human voice, contact microphones, radios, toy instruments for children and guitar pedal effects. During the recording stage, he works with MD recorder, dictaphones, loop station, reel-to-reel tape recorder, archive radio recordings and computer with various software. http://www.myspace.com/urinatorium; http://www.myspace.com/kakofonikt;http://www.myspace.com/audiozbieractwo; http://www.strefaciszy.com.p

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18. 15-19.20: Adam Kaczanowski, Thumbelina. Tunnel, (Literary Performance)

***Adam Kaczanowski (Poland) – writer and performer. Author of two novels and poetic books.

Thumbelina. Tunnel: project focuses on certain episode in the life of a minature girl. Thumbelina after much persuasion od Mouse lands in a Mole's tunnel. It seems the girl is condemned to life in a dark underground. This episode was only mentioned by Hans Christian Andersen but here is described day by day. We immerse in the sory full of gloomy suppressed emotions... http://adamkaczanowski.tumblr.com

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SOUNDWALK x 1___Sensorial walk: touch, smell, taste

The city is created for eye. Made of majestic buildings,broad streets, open squares and parks, pavement-catwalks– drains into our window-eyes, shows off itself, exhibits forothers to see. The city is built of sounds. Composed ofmurmurs, whispers, hums, rustles, clatters, rattles andcracks breaks into our always open door-ears, making usindifferent to noise.

As to feel the city, you must get really close to it, close youreyes, shut your ears. Smells emerge from the urban body –intimate reeks of sewers, soft scent of promenades, muskyaroma of gates and backyards. Urban tissue blendstogether plaster's roughness with smoothness of glass,coarseness metallic drain-pipes and softness of dog'sdroppings. If you touch it and wait a moment, might be youwould feel how it raises and falls, how rhythmicallyvibrates, pulsates with life and death.

During the workshops, the participants will be led aboutthe city transformed into one which they never knewbefore.

guider: Katarzyna Wala

Spacery czuciowe: dotyk, zapach, smak

Miasto stworzone jest dla oka. Zbudowane zmajestatycznych budynków, szerokich korytarzy ulic,plenerów placów i skwerków, chodników-wybiegów –wlewa się przez okna oczu, wystawia na pokaz, pokazujeinnym. Miasto skonstruowane jest z dźwięków.Uplecione z gwarów, szmerów, szumów, terkotów,stukotów i trzasków wdziera się przez otwarte drzwiuszu, zobojętnia na hałas. Ale trzeba podejśd naprawdęblisko, zamknąd oczy, zatkad uszy, aby miasto wyczud. Zmiejskiego cielska wyłaniają się bowiem zapachy –intymne wyziewy kanalizacji, delikatne wonie deptaków,piżmowe aromaty bram i podwórek. Miejska tkankałączy niejednoznaczną chropowatośd tynków zgładkością szkła, szorstkością metalicznych rynien,miękkością psich kup. Jeśli ją dotkniesz i poczekaszchwilę, może poczujesz jak wznosi się i opada, jakrytmicznie wibruje, pulsuje życiem i umieraniem.

Podczas warsztatów uczestnicy zostaną oprowadzeni pomieście jakiego dotąd nie znali.

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SOUNDWALK x 2: (Re)orientation into nature

Imagine you hear sounds beyond the space whereyou are. Imagine a situation when what is hearingis not what is seeing, when obvious connectionbetween vision and sound is shattered. Imaginethe city surrounded by nature compostions.Follow me and experience a slowmotionimmersion into sounds create by cicadas, bees,flies, birds and coyotes. The goal is simple: tosustain sensorial re-orientation and disorientation.

___Soundwalk with headphones and mp3(attention: only in-ear headphones available; youcan use own headphones!!!)___max. participants number: 10 people

guider: Agata Stanisz

Wyobraź sobie, że słyszysz dźwięki spozaprzestrzeni, w której się znajdujesz. Wyobraźsobie, że to co słyszalne rozmija się z tym comożliwe do zobaczenia, kiedy oczywistepołęcznie pomiędzy wizją a dźwiękiem zostajezakłócone. Wyobraź sobie miastorozbrzmiewające kompozycjami natury. Chodźze mną i doświadcz spowolnionej immersji wświat dźwięków wytworzonych przez cykady,pszczoły, muchy, ptaki i kojoty. Będziemysłuchad, patrzed i odczuwd. Doznamyzmysłowej reorientacji i dezorientacji.

___Spacer dźwiękowy ze słuchawkami i mp3(uwaga: dostępne będą tylko słuchawkidouszne; można użyd własnych słuchawek!!!)

___maksymalna liczba uczestników: 10 osób

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APRIL 26 KWIETNIA

10.30-20.00

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dr Jarema Drozdowicz (Faculty of Educational Studies, AdamMickiewicz University, Poznao, Poland): SEEING ISBELIEVING. ANTHROPOLOGICAL VISIONS OF CULTURE

This paper's thesis line is being made by an attempt to graspthe specific character of the visual aspect of culturalphenomena as seen by cultural anthropology.Anthropological visions of culture do undergo certainprocess of theoretical and methodological transgressions,thus all of them might seem to differentiate the point ofview in this matter. Nevertheless we are able to draw a clearline of a historical development of anthropological thoughtin the visual context. This historical reconstruction of thevisual paradigm is making the starting point of the paper andleads inevitably to the question of how the burden ofanthropological traditions affects the discipline's perspectivetoday. Anthropologists often do describe their object ofstudy, that is culture in its various forms and shapes, as acertain thing we look upon from a different perspective. Thisshift in the cultural perspective makes the anthropologicalview of the Other so unique in the first place. On the otherhand the visual approach might be also regarded as anobstacle in perceiving the cultural difference as it is in itsown context. Although the ethnocentric view is long passé inthe eyes of many, its presence cannot be ignored in theconstruction of current anthropological approaches towardsculture. To overcome our own limitations we must look farbeyond our own cultural dictionary having simultaneously inmind the fact, that we still look at the Other through glasseswhich we are given to us by our own culture. This argumentbrings into the discussion not just the visual aspect ofanthropological work, but also the performative one, whichbuilds the main thesis of this paper.

dr Agata Stanisz (Department of Ethnology and CulturalAnthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznao,Poland): DE-VISUALIZING ANTHROPOLOGICALKNOWLEDGE. MANIFESTO

The aim of my presentation is to highlight issuesconnected with cultural processes which I desribe withthe use of a working notion 'de-visual'. I assume thereare important questions that must be posed whilediscussing alternative for the visual paradigm in a culturalanthropology. I propose speech consisted with two parts.Firstly I would like to stirr up a debate on possibilities ofdoing anthropology which rejects the visual paradigm. Iwill raise questions about potential of a new, extravisualproduction of knowledge and processes of a formulationanthropologal pratice as sensorial experience co-directedby technology and new media. Here it might be useful tomention my perspective is an anthropologist of soundperspective. This fact will have a number of ramificationsof my insight. The second part of my speech will be loudtaking the form of a manifesto.

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prof. Mattijs P. J. van de Port (Department ofAnthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam,The Netherlands): FRUIT PROJECT: SAVOURINGBRAZILIAN FRUITS

Saborear frutas brasileiras (Savouring brazilian fruits) isfilm project that seeks to convey the sensuouspleasures of touching, smelling, eating, sucking,slurping and swallowing the fruits of Brazil, includingcaju, pinha, sapoti, cana de açucar, tamarindo, goiaba,siriguela, jaca & manga. The recordings were made inthe city of Salvador, Bahia, in the summer of 2011. Theproject is part of my ongoing attempts to open upanthropological research for what I call the-rest-of-what-is -- the dimensions of being that need to berepressed, ignored, or tabooed for our realitydefinitions to make sense. I think of saborear frutasbrasileiras as a critique of the logocentrism that reinsAcademia, as well as of the reduction of anthropologyto 'semiotics'. These images, sounds and our bodilyresponses to them may remind us that there are manynew and alternative 'archives' to be explored in thestudy of Man.

Trine Thygaard-Nielsen (Institute of Anthropology at University ofCopenhagen, Denmark) TASTING THE GENERATIONAL CONFLICT.AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF FOOD INDUCED FLEXIBILITYBETWEEN ANDALUSIAN GENERATIONS IN THE UPBRINGING OFMINORS.

How can we deal with food in anthropology in a way thatcompliment the mapping of the structural categorization of foodelements? Taste will be my starting point. Only in the field can itbe sensed. By experiencing the eating situations and ideas abouttaste in Andalusian intergenerational food communities I was ableto sense how social relations are at work around the lunch table.In everyday life, taste does not only equal individual tastepreferences but also broader frames of reference such as healthytaste, the taste of reward and the taste of belonging. Thesecontexts, which I will conceptualize as regimes of taste, make usable to consider conceptions of care, commitment, coddling andresponsibility. It is the regimes of taste that I will address in orderto shed light upon the distinctive positions inhabited bygenerations and gender in intergenerational food communities.Since everybody present around the table has a saying in thematter at play especially in the feeding of the minors everybodyacts as they think best. Thus leading to discrepancies betweengenerations and gender regarding which regime of taste is of vitalimportance. The ways of dealing with these discrepancies arevarious e.g. liquidize food, prepare numerous plates or handingover the education of the children’s taste buds to the school’sdining hall. I hereby stress that approaching the interplay betweenthe regimes of taste and the positions inhabited is the key tounderstand the development of social identities regarding food,feeding and even positions in broader social structures.

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Phd-student Katarzyna Wala (Faculty of Historicaland Pedagogical Sciences, at University ofWrocław, Poland): DO YOU FEEL THE BORDELINE?ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE SENSES AND DOMESTICSPACE

They are renting rooms in others' houses. Forvarious reasons they don't decide to take a loan.While wandering in the city, from building tobuilding, they are looking for suitable conditions tolive. Sometimes they stay longer in one place,sometimes they move out after few days. Sincethey can't afford to pay the rent, they decide toshare a flat with other people. They keep their ownintimacy in a single room, while kitchen, hall andbathroom is treated as a common space, ofmeetings and conflicts. I thought over thesignificance of senses both in the issue ofcoexistence with flatmates, and in broader contextof “being at home”, whilst doing a research amongyoung adults renting flats in Wroclaw. Whilediscussing this matter, I'd like to present my ownthoughts on the subject of researching within thesensory ethnography, on the basis of DavidMacDougall, Laura U. Marks, Sarah Pink's works,and think over the form of presentation ofvisualized/sensed and embodied knowledge.

Alexander Chaplin (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, TheNetherlands): COUCHSURFING: SENSUAL ENCOUNTERS WITHAUTHENTICALLY ‘SENSE-ABLE’ OTHERNESS

This article is about global travel network ‘CouchSurfing’, whichallows members to request free accommodation in each other’shomes while travelling and claims to provide a ‘genuine’ sense ofthe ‘otherness’ of other people and places. While anthropologistshave shown that all claims of ‘authenticity’ in tourism can bedeconstructed, CouchSurfing stands out because it capitalises onthe popular belief that the ocularcentric ‘stagedness’ ofmainstream tourism makes it suspicious, and asserts that theintimate face-to-face encounters it facilitates are ‘immediate’ and‘thus real’. As anthropologists, we have to maintain that mediationis inescapable, but we can learn from the way CouchSurfing tries torender encounters between members ‘immediate’. The networkdoes this mostly by addressing the ‘register’ of the sensuous body:it makes members fully immerse themselves in the everyday ofothers for prolonged periods of time, analogous to theanthropologist in the field. With examples from fieldwork in Serbia,I show how the sensorium, ultimately uncontrollable by the mind,and characterised by its own habitus, inevitably responds to theunfamiliar that makes up someone else’s everyday. The felt realityof ‘sense-able’ otherness then is hard to deny. We thus see thatotherness has ‘sense-able’ dimensions and is not a merelycognitive construct (as anthropologists have often analysed it).Taking the senses into account in our analyses therefore helps usunderstand how (post)modern subjects manage to find ways ofliving ‘authentic’ – sensorially grounded – lives in a world in whichfinding firm ground under our feet seems ever more troublesome.

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Alejandro Jaramillo (Visual and Media Anthropology at FreieUniversitaet Berlin, Germany): WHOSE SCARRED SENSES ARE THEYANYWAY?: THE POLITICS AND PO-ETHICS OF AN ANTHROPOLOGYOF THE SENSES AMONG COLOMBIAN VICTIMS

This article addresses the interstices of the institutional discourseson ‘reparation’ and ‘reconciliation’ that leave aside a preponderantreality of the pain of victims: its embodiment and subsequentsensorial residues. The particular yet hugely discordant case ofColombia allows for much thought about the manner in whichinstitutional powers render the concept of memory infertile whilemaintaining a generic index of success, in its coming to terms withvictims of State sponsored crime, made up of testimonies that areextracted based on their value as lineal/causal narratives whichprovide enough information for transcription and archival registry.This concern turns to the exploration, along many contemporaryartistic practices in Colombia, of the possibilities that lay inenacting the sensorial in the audiovisual mediation of culture as away to both escape and amplify any institutional normativity ofeconomic compensation and oficial retribution, for it could shapeout that most intimate and ungraspable realm of human dwelling.Then of course, this exploration would remain a wholly theoreticalone with conclusions that could, given the opportunity, bedeployed as a guiding scheme for the collaborative creation of anaudiovisual product that appeals to a –reshaping of- collectivememory and so the sensorial realities that have been fractured bythe culture of terror, something that could have both a specialcommunicative or therapeutic outcome. That is, to work with andtowards memory as an embodied experience and not as a token ofthe simplifying function underlying the institutional “reparation”and “reconciliation” process.

Therese Kjellerup Thorstholm (Institute of Anthropologyat University of Copenhagen, Denmark): THEANTHROPOLOGY OF THE SENSES: GETTING IN TOUCHWITH FIELDWORK

When looking through the history of the senses inanthropology, what seems to me to be the most strikingthing, is the loss of doing ethnographic fieldwork in thesearch of understanding the senses in a Western context.It is in the West that we anthropologists try to grasp thesignificance of the senses and how people, includingourselves, take the senses for granted in living oureveryday lives. In order to question our own senses,anthropologists have travelled thousands of kilometresto try to understand how other people with differentworld views use and understand their senses. However,few fieldwork studies have focused on the senses in theWest. Here many scholars focus on theories about thesenses in a contemporary view, but few actually dare toget in touch with the field – the essence of anthropology.The sense of the field is lost - it is not smelled, touched,tasted, seen or heard. In the Autumn of 2010 I tried tosmell, touch, taste, see and hear a field very close to myown – in Copenhagen. However the field was indeedquite different from my own. I did fieldwork amongelders at an activity centre to try to understand thesignificance of the social context for the sense ofhearing. I wish to explain how methodologically I foundthat possible, and furthermore why I think that theanthropology of the senses needs to be challenged in thefield of anthropology.

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Phd-student Tanja Kubes (Institute for Ethnology atthe Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,Germany): FIELDWORK ON HIGH HEELS: HOSTESSESAND THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF THEFEMALE BODY

Tradeshow hostesses represent an almost archetypicalimage of femininity. The process of becoming a hostessincludes a constant defragmentation and recompositionof the female body and the acquisition of specific“hostess body techniques”. Seemingly everydayactivities like standing or smiling are stripped of theircodified social meanings and emotional values and arere--‐acquired as purely physical actions. There is a clearcognitive/emotional dissonance between how hostessesfeel (e.g. sore legs and aching backs) and what theirmimic seems to suggest (cheerful smiles and alluringglances). Doing hostess, thus, is a complex physical andmental activity that can only be adequately studied in aholistic, multisensory way. The ethnographer has nochoice but to subject herself to the strict regime of(often quite painful) bodily experience. My paper isbased on extensive “thick participation” and participantobservation among tradeshow hostesses and discussesthe physical (or incorporative) aspects of culture thatcan be observed in the act of doing hostess. I willaddress how culture forms the body and how it isincorporated, how it inscribes itself in the body and“naturalizes” body and mind. In addition, I will develop aperformative concept of “doing culture” as it can beinduced from the sensory experience of hostessing.

dr Magdalena Dąbrowska (Institute of Cultural Studies atMaria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland):JOURNEY TO INDIA: RECOLLECTING SENSORIAL EXPERIENCE

By using numerous ethnographic methodologies(autoetnography, performative ethnography, sensoryethnography) I will attempt to share the experience oftravelling in India. Indian culture is especially interesting dueto its post- colonial heritage and numerous academicdebates over representation of „the oriental” in Westernsocial sciences. My paper would attempt to reconcilereflection on being in, living in and experiencing otherculture with methodological experiments with ethnography.Contemporary ethnography rejected positivistmethodologies and their seemingly neutral scientificlanguage as being associated with colonial context. Post-modern ethnographies attempt to provide multi-dimensional, context- sensitive research, and thus work withexperimental methods of ethnographic writing. In the paperI would like to argue that post-modern ethnographies, bypaying attention to experience, body, senses, provide newperspectives on cultural research and presenting researchresults.

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Małgorzata Rygielska (Instytut Nauk o Kulturze atUniversity of Silesia, Katowice, Poland):BRÉSIL AND GRÉSILLER. TRISTES TROPIQUES AND FIELDWORK AS SENSORY EXPERIENCE

Tristes tropiques, a book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, hashad different interpretations thus far. It is noteworthythat perhaps what has not been overemphasized byresearchers so far are descriptions of sensationsexperienced by Levi-Strauss, who travels by boat andinvestigates primitive communities, as well as exploresterritories of Brazil in search of "real savage" ones. Ashe mentions himself, he will associate Brazil, by virtueof sound stimuli, forever with the smell of incense. Healso learns the taste of koro, white larvae, i.e. thedelicacy of Indians who are not too eager to tellstrangers about their culinary preferences. He forceshis way through forests and tries to get accustomed tothe necessity of protecting his body against insects.What are involved in the process of the fieldwork areall the senses. For this reason, I am interested not onlyin the role of the senses in the fieldwork, includingtheir impact on the manner and quality of observationsmade during it, but also the way of describing itsresults. Apart from photographs taken in the field inTristes tropiques, we will also find extensivedescriptions of sensory experiences of the tribesobserved and examined by Lévi-Strauss as well as hisown ones. In the context of former and present fieldresearch methodologies they are the main subjectmatter of the analysis in the presented paper.

Phd-student Karolina Marcinkowska (Ethnology andAnthropology Institute, Warsaw University, Poland):RESEARCHING THE INVISIBLE – KALANURI CULT INMAHAJANGA, MADAGASCAR.

Madagascar is called by its inhabitants “the land ofancestors” (Tanindrazana): each region and ethnic group hasits own way to communicate either with the deceased orwith nature spirits. Daily interactions with spirits arepractically integrated with the everyday life, considered ascomponents of the Malagasy “art of living”, sources of thecommunity fihavanana and the individual destiny vintana.During my field work connected with the differentdiscourses about tromba possession cult in the Mahajangacity in west Madagascar, I had the possibility to assist somekalanuri ceremonies. All the knowledge about kalanuribeings is actually based on sensory experiences and – in aminor degree - on orally transmitted stories. In fact, eventalking about them can be taboo (fady), moreover anaccidently glimpse on this being could be fatal. Kalanuri aresaid to be small beings, which have their own socialconnections: they actually lead a parallel life to humans, buttend to be invisible to them. They can be friendly and evenhighly propitious, give advices and warnings about thefuture, which are connected to general prosperity, health orsocial relationships.However it’s not easy to take advantage of the kalanuriknowledge: like many other spirits, it’s only up to him, whowill be chosen to be his medium. The connection with thespirit is possible only by building a special house for him andrespecting the many rules imposed by him.Experience of the “invisible” in Mahajanga, local forms ofunderstanding the kalanuri spirit world and getting in touchwith it, as well as searching for methods to describe suchtopics, will be the core of my paper.

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Agata Kochaniewicz, Anna Adamowicz (Department ofEthnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam MickiewiczUniversity, Poznao, Poland): CROWD, NOISE, STENCH.UNPLEASANT EMPIRICAL EXPERIENCE IN ANTHROPOLOGYFIELDWORK

In our speech we would like to refer to the theme fieldworkas sensory experience. In official reports, articles hardlyever we can meet with descriptions about the cases ofsensorial experience of anthropologists. Researchers stressmainly two senses: eyesight and hearing, which can beconsidered as european way of feeling. In our speech wewill focus on autoethnography giving examples from ourfieldwork and literature. Our aim is to emphasize thatinfluence of sense like smell, taste can have significantimpact on description and results of anthropology research.Using attributes directly connected with senses that areperceived as annoying like impression of many people inone place, stinky smell or squeaky sounds we will show tothe audience how deep and distinctly this thing haveconnections with researcher’ self-feeling and going furtherwith perception of field and respondents.

Anna Kubisztal (Department of Ethnology and CulturalAnthropology at University of Lodz, Poland): THESOUNDS OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA - JOURNEY WITHDR IÑIGO SÁNCHEZ

The purpose of my paper is to present the researchmade by Spanish anthropologist Iñigo Sanches, whospecializes in sounds and music in anthropologicalperspective. He is going to write and describe sounds inan old district in Lisbon called: Mouraria. Mouraria is azone where emigrants live. People from totally differentcountries, present completely different cultures, what isclosely related with different sounds and music. Inaddition this zone is one of the oldest in Lisbon, whereborn fado. I participated in one research made by Iñigoduring the festival Todos. Where I met all of neighboursfrom Mouraria. He does a research in Lisbon as he did inBarcelona. He researched sounds and music in olddistrict in Barcelona, who was a fishermen district(earlier fishermen’ village) and after time wastransformed in modern zone. The docks was revitalisedand government totally changed this part of city. Hecompared and contrasted the sounds of the earliesttimes and contemporary. He recorded old and newsounds. What is more, Mr Sanches made interviews withold fishermen and with new owner of this zone aboutsounds that they remember and what kind of sounds areafter changes.*Mr Sanches and research made by him are part of myPhD work about the Portuguese Anthropology. He is ananthropologist who is doing post doc research in Lisbon.He is an example of foreigner who is doing hisresearched in the Portuguese School of Anthropology inPortugal.

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Zsuzsanna Kunt (Eötvös Loránd Science University,Budapest, Hungary): BLINDNESS AND CULTURALRELATIVISM

This lecture will be dedicated to exploring the potentialcritical and cultural contexts of the loss of visual sensationwithin anthropology and makes an attempt to introducethe existential appearance, the aims, the chances and thetasks of the (sub)cultures of the blind people. The injuriesof the senses lead to a peculiar perception andconstruction of reality, which fundamentally determineshuman behaviour, defining certain cultural and subculturalsystems of ideas and actions. Based on the insight ofcultural relativism, we consider the alternative ways ofaction, thinking and perception just as valid as the onesbelonging to our cultural tradition. What extent is thisvalidity acknowledged in connection with blind people?How are the forms of “action, thinking and perception” ofdisabled people reshaped by the social norms, the systemof demands and opportunities? What kinds of culturalpractices do the blind people have to sense social reality?Social scientists have studied the social aspects andcategories of the health-illness dichotomy along with thecultural patterns of behaviour related to it and the socialroles of the stigmatized people. A few years before themillennium scientific interest was directed to study thespecific construction of customs, behaviour, identity andknowledge within disabled communities. The main goal ofthis study is to raise attention to the importance andnovelty of the cultural anthropological approach in thedisability studies and to inspire the co-thinking on thistopic.

Adrianna Koralewska (Department of Ethnology andCultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University,Poznao, Poland): SHIFTING SENSORIUM TRAINING AS AGIFT OF NOTHING

Does any one need to have eyes and ears to know? It hasbeen years since I read Robert Sheckley's short story abouta man who was traced down by the odour of his thoughts.It seems rather like science-fiction, nevertheless, it mayapply to most of us, as in the Western world man uses onlya small fraction of his greatly modified capabilities. Throughethnographic description of a professional physical theatretraining programme in which I actively participated, I wouldlike to speak from my insider’s emic, as well as outsider’setic perspective about ‘shifting sensorium’ to describepeople who experience the world through strikinglydifferent modes of perception than the supposed visuallydominant Euro-American way of being. The principals ofthis training were Impulse and Kinaesthetic Learning,Psycho-empathetic Learning and Sensory Awareness. Themain focus was set far away from the sense of sight as it iscommon for all performing arts, especially dance andtraditional forms of Asian Theatres. It was a space forintercultural exchange but also ‘never-ending momentum’of breaking free from the social structure. In terms ofcommunicative role, we see totally involved human beingsusing all the senses they are endowed with. Until now ithas proved to have a significant influence on my actualwork practice as a teacher, researcher and performer.

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