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Multimodal Mapmaking: Working Toward an Entangled Methodology of Place
Author(s) -
Powell Kimberly
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12168
Subject(s) - multimodality , materiality (auditing) , embodied cognition , ethnography , materialism , phenomenon , sociology , epistemology , aesthetics , linguistics , art , philosophy , anthropology
This article addresses mapmaking as a multimodal method and lens for place‐based ethnographic inquiry. I describe three contexts drawn from my research on and teaching of mapmaking. Drawing from my own sense‐making of mapping as an embodied phenomenon, I discuss how the fields of sensory and materialist studies might expand the interpretive possibilities of multimodal ethnography as an epistemological and ontological lens involving the entanglement of place, body, and experience with knowing and becoming. [mapmaking, multimodality, senses, place, materiality]