Global South Ethnographies Global South Ethnographies Minding the Senses Edited by elke emerald Griffith University, Australia Robert E. Rinehart University of Waikato, New Zealand and Antonio Garcia Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: 978-94-6300-492-3 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-493-0 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-494-7 (e-book) Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/ Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2016 Sense Publishers No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. RER For Kerry Earl ee For Daniel Jansse 1933–1991 You would love your name in a book––here it is. AGQ This book is dedicated to my wife Marisol and my son Angel. TAblE of ConTEnTS Acknowledgements ix List of Figures xi 1. Minding the Senses in Global South Ethnographies: Expanding Worldviews 1 Robert E. Rinehart and elke emerald Section 1: Emerging Methods 2. Ethnography across Storytelling and the Senses 21 D. Soyini Madison 3. Humor Takes the Stage: A Performance of Couples’ Humor 31 Wendy Talbot 4. ‘Since Feeling Is First’: Poetry and Research Supervision 59 Katie Fitzpatrick and Esther Fitzpatrick 5. Environmental Art: A Creative Response to Economic Catastrophe 71 John Dahlsen Section 2: Praxis: The Sensory in lived Worlds 6. From Myth and Legend to Reality: Voyages of Rediscovery and Knowledge 87 Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr 7. From Drunken-Sage to Artiste, the Many Lives of the Tibetan Dekar 93 Harmony Siganporia 8. Mothers and Food: Performing the Family Mealtime 103 Rachel Lamdin Hunter and Kahurangi Dey 9. Pehea ka ʻAha a kāua? How Is Our Rope? Ethnographic Practices from Behind, In Front of, and In the ʻAha 113 Emalani Case Section 3: Transformations in Social Justice: Theoretically Embodied Visions 10. Place-Responsive Choreography and Activism 127 Karen Barbour vii Table of ConTenTs 11. Spinning Wheel Very Pretty: Cybridity and the Cyborg Academic 147 lisahunter 12. The Heartlines in Your Hand: Writing Autoethnography with Hélène Cixous and Virginia Woolf 153 Elizabeth Mackinlay Section 4: The Sensual in latin America: Writing in the boundary between Spanish and English 13. Foreign and Yours: Writing in the Boundary between Spanish and English 169 Antonio Garcia 14. My “Third World” in Three Words: Performative Writing from the Perspective of a Latin-American Woman 175 Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda 15. ‘Passing’—and ‘Failing’—in Latin America: Methodological Reflections on Linguacultural Identity 185 Phiona Stanley Section 5: Autoethnographic Voices in the Global South 16. Who Is Eye? An Autoethnographic View on Higher Educational Spaces from a Pasifika girl 199 Fetaui Iosefo 17. The Transformative Experiences of Cultural Healing: An Autoethnography of Kaupapa Māori 209 Melissa Carey 18. Postscript: The Place of the Sensory in Contemporary Ethnographies 221 elke emerald and Robert E. Rinehart About the Authors 237 viii ACknoWlEdGEMEnTS We are grateful to The University of Waikato and Griffith University for their support of this book, and particularly to Tangata Whenua, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and Gumurrii, who have provided supportive structure and guidance for the spirit of the CEAD hui and the academic outputs stemming from it. As well, we thank Sense Publishers—particularly Peter de Liefde and Michel Lokhorst for their assistance. We also have individual acknowledgement statements, as follows: I am grateful to my colleagues at the University of Waikato (and those who have moved on from UW) and around the world, particularly those who have jumped in and provided incredible assistance in moving the CEAD itself forward. These individuals would include: Karen Barbour, Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr, Ruth Behar, Tracy Bowell, Lars Brabyn, Toni Bruce, Donna Campbell, Melissa Carey, Jayne Caudwell, Cathy Colborne, James Corner, Sarah Corner, Roy Crawford, Chris Cutri, Rosemary DeLuca, Norman K. Denzin, Fabrice Desmarais, Neil Drew, Katie Fitzpatrick, Lorraine Friend, Antonio Garcia, Bevan Grant, Shiloh Groot, T. Michael Hayes, Lisa Hays, Craig Hight, Richard Hill, Darrin Hodgetts, Margie Hohepa, Alister Jones, Roslyn Kerr, Jacquie Kidd, Sara Kindon, lisahunter, Helen McDonald, D. Soyini Madison, Rangi Matamua, Carolyn Michelle, Roger Moltzen, Anoop Nayak, Koro Ngapo, Rogelia Pe-Pua, Clive Pope, Richard Pringle, Elspeth Probyn, Donn Ratana, Tom Roa, Jude Robinson, Geogina Roy, Charles Royal, Katherine Ryan, Nan Seuffert, Vicki Smith, Ottilie Stolte, Damion Sturm, Synthia Sydnor, Holly Thorpe, Martin Tolich, Kay Weaver, Hēmi Whaanga, Paul Whitinui, Katie Wilson, Amanda Young-Hauser. A very special thank you to the extraordinary Amy Fitzgerald of Flow Events, Ltd. And of course many thanks to the many sponsors of CEAD, who indirectly have supported the publication and dissemination of these ethnographic exemplars: the University of Waikato; Te Kura Toi Tangata/the Faculty of Education (UW); Families Commission New Zealand; Bennetts Bookstores; iSite Hamilton; Berg Publishers; the Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research (WMIER); Orbit Corporate Travel; the Department of Psychology (UW); the Department of Sport & Leisure Studies; the Department of Human Development and Counselling (UW); Sage Publications (Australia/NZ); Griffith Institute of Educational Research; Springer Press; Momento Café. Much appreciation also to our Founding Patron, Waikato Management School. I value elke emerald, her brain, her evenness and unflappability. It has been a pleasure co-editing this book with her and Antonio. I also wish to thank my son Nick and daughter Aly for how they enrich my life. RER ix