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Academic (In)Discipline, Research (In)Sanity and the Conundrum of (Indigenous) Timescapes
- Author(s):
- Bernd Brabec de Mori (see profile)
- Date:
- 2022
- Group(s):
- Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Indigenous Studies, Music and Sound
- Subject(s):
- Indigenous peoples, Musicology, Psychiatry, Philosophy, History
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- discipline, indiscipline
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/smy9-jk11
- Abstract:
- This contribution focuses on strategies to bridge what in anthropology is called ontological incommensurability: Indigenous worlds often seem inaccessible to modern thought. Instead of trying to open Indigenous worlds to Westerners, I rather intend to make Western worlds accessible to Indigenous thought; and likewise, academic disciplines accessible to transdisciplinary thought; and as my most rebellious aim: I intend to make objects of research accessible for researchers. The connecting principle, I suggest, is time, temporality, and particularly synchronization and entrainment. If a society, a researcher, or a discipline is bound to a predetermined temporal regime, synchronization with the rest of the world, the researched, or the scholarly environment becomes difficult if not impossible. Lack of synchronization – on a human level causally related to psychosis – often results in substitutions with delusional constructions or models that may or may not allow for accessibility, synchronization, and therefore eye-level communication and interaction with the entities to face both in research and in inter-community life.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 months ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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