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Irish Antropoly Journal NO COVER.Indd Irish Journal of Anthropological Anthropology Association of Ireland Volume 14(1) 2011 Special Issue: Th e Value of Ethnographic Writing Guest Editors: Keith Egan and Fiona Murphy General Editor: Fiona Larkan ‘Ogma’ Illustration: Monika Weissensteiner Volume 14(1) 2011 ISSN: 1393-8592 Irish Journal of Anthropology Th eIrish Journal of Anthropology is the organ of the Anthropological Association of Ireland. As such, it aims to promote the discipline of anthropology on the island of Ireland, north and south. It seeks to provide coverage of Irish-related matters and of issues in general anthropology and to be of interest to anthropologists inside and outside academia, as well as to colleagues in a range of other disciplines, such as Archaeology, Cultural Studies, Development Studies, Ethnology and Folk Studies, Gaeilge, Irish Studies, and Sociology. Editor: Dr Fiona Larkan, Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin. [email protected] Associate Editor: Dr Fiona Magowan, School of History and Anthropology, Th e Queen’s University of Belfast. f.magowan@ qub.ac.uk Editorial Advisory Board: Dr Dominic Bryan, School of History and Anthropology, Th e Queen’s University of Belfast Dr Anthony Buckley, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, Co. Down Dr Keith Egan, Independent Researcher, Galway Anthony Kelly (Postgraduate Representative) NUI Maynooth Dr John Nagle, Lecturer in Anthropology, University of East London Professor Máiréad Nic Craith, University of Ulster, Magee Campus Dr Carles Salazar, University of Lleida, Spain Professor Ida Susser, Th e Graduate Centre, Th e City University of New York Professor Elizabeth Tonkin, Oxford, England Book Review Editors: Dr Fiona Murphy, Department of Anthropology, NUI Maynooth. fi [email protected] Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis, School of History and Anthropology, Th e Queens University of Belfast. [email protected] Irish Language Editor: Dr Steve Coleman, Department of Anthropology, NUI Maynooth. [email protected] Finances: Sheila Fitzgerald, AAI Treasurer, 17 Rosses Quay, Rostrevor, Co. Down BT34 3GL, Northern Ireland. sheilafi tzgerald@ btinternet.com Th eIrish Journal of Anthropology appears twice a year, in Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter. Annual Subscriptions: Members: Waged – €30/£20; Student/Retired – €15/£10 (2011) Overseas (incl. P&P): €25/£17; Institutions: €80/£70 Orders, accompanied by payment, should be sent to Irish Journal of Anthropology, c/o Department of Anthropology, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. Telephone: +353 1 708 3984; fax: +353 1 708 3570; e-mail: anthropology. offi [email protected] Members of the AAI receive the journal as part of their membership subscription. Information about membership can be found on the AAI web-site: www.anthropologyireland.org Advertising Rates: Full Page: €100; Half Page: €60; Quarter Page: €40 1 Irish Journal of Anthropology Volume 14(1) 2011 Spring/Summer Table of Contents Editorial Note Front Cover – Monika Weissensteiner Biographical Notes Articles 4. Keith Egan and Fiona Murphy Introduction: The value of ethnographic writing 7. Michael Jackson Sound Properties of the written word 14. Keith Egan Being with others: Croagh Patrick in July 2008 19. Ioannis Tsioulakis ‘At first I saw it as a toy’: life stories, social consciousness and music ethnography 29. Ghassan Hage A massacre is not a massacre 30. Carol Barron Enabling children’s voices in ethnographic writing: an evaluation of photographs by children as a data generating tool 37. Barbara Graham A pair of spectacles and a lump of coal: objects of the dead and the stories they tell 43. Fiona Larkan and Brian van Wyk Writing Henry: the moralities of representation 50. Yan Hu Audience-related phenomenological multi-vocality or multi-perspectives: cultural landscaping of Dai People 59. Michael Jackson Wicklow reflection Book Reviews 60. Alisse Waterson and Maria D. Vesperi (eds), Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing. (Sarah Walsh) 61. Peter Collins and Anselma Gallinat (eds), The Ethnographic Self as Resource. (Fiona Murphy) 62. Ana Maria Forero Angel and Luca Simeone (eds), Beyond Ethnographic Writing. (Ting Ting Shum) 2 Irish Journal of Anthropology Volume 14(1) 2011 Editorial Note (Fiona Larkan) As incoming editor of the Irish Journal of Anthropology I take this opportunity to thank my predecessor, Dr Séamas Ó Síocháin, for the many years of work he has dedicated to the task. Under his editorship we have seen the journal develop a strong identity and high production values, while remaining faithful to the AAI’s remit - to maintain a focus on anthropology on, of and from the island of Ireland. It is only when shadowing Séamas during the last six months of his editorship that I fully appreciated the time, effort and personal commitment he put into this work – big shoes for me to fill! Thankfully I was helped for my first issue as editor by guest editors Fiona Murphy and Keith Egan. The collection of articles contained herein is drawn from a week long writing retreat organized by Fiona and Keith in May 2010, and guided by Professor Michael Jackson who gave so generously of his time during the week and in the months since. We are grateful too to Monika Weissensteiner for her design of the original front cover artwork depicting the Celtic mythical figure Ogma who represents ‘the power of the word’; most appropriate for this special issue on the value of ethnographic writing. Front Cover Ogma, a Celtic deity that in Irish mythology represents the ‘power of the word’, is considered to be the inventor of the Ogham alphabet, a system of writing developed around the fourth century. It is composed of strokes and notches, which were cut upon the edge of a piece of wood or often into stone. Only insiders could read the signs and understand the meaning; and only the select few had the authority to write. Ogma is usually represented as a wise old man, with a lion skin, a baton in his hand and with chains, which lead from his tongue to the ears of the people; his words guide but also bind them. Ogma, for his strength, his eloquence, and maybe for his trickster-like- being, has been compared to the figures of Heracles and Hermes in Greek methodology. ‘Writing’, written text codified within particular forms of social science writing, has been perceived as the most scientific—read ‘authoritative’—form of representation of social life. So who, if not a slightly differently painted Ogma, could therefore look from the front-page of this edition of the Irish Journal of Anthropology, titled ‘The Value of Ethnographic Writing.’ Through the cover I aimed to literally ‘draw’ attention towards the conditions of anthropological knowledge production. I chose a rather ‘surreal’ image to reflect upon the social life and epistemological grounding of anthropological-‘text-making’ and to represent existing power-relations in which ethnographic encounters have been imbedded throughout our discipline’s history. But are they therefore less real? Today, the ‘butterfly-catcher’/ ethnologist may provoke a smile. And it is not only anymore exclusively ‘white men’ who are throwing out their nets of interpretative grids from different academic chairs or schools of thought. The ‘other’ has been fighting to receive a voice of her own and looks straight from the cover. So, what stories are being told by whom and to whom—and how are they told—are questions never out of place. The traditional imaginary of Ogma may suggest that the chains that bind us to particular narratives, to writing and publishing practices that can both guide our endeavour, but also bind us. Thus, parallel to its content, the drawing as creative means of representation and communication was also meant to be a statement in itself. And herewith I quit this writing, and leave it to the viewer to discover meanings in the picture. I thank the editors for ‘loosing the chains’ and calling for innovative contributions to re-explore the power of the word. Monika Weissensteiner European Master in Social Anthropology, EuMA.sca, NUIM Notes on Contributors Michael Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School Keith Egan is an independent researcher living in the west of Ireland whose work has largely dealt with contemporary European religious devotion. He would like to acknowledge the support of NORFACE in the research and writing phases of the piece included here. Email: [email protected] Fiona Murphy has recently completed an IRCHSS funded project (Principal Investigator Dr. Mark Maguire) entitled After Asylum: An Ethnographic Analysis of Refugee Integration. A graduate of UCC in 2000 with a joint honours degree in French and English, and an M.A in French, Fiona received her PhD in anthropology from NUI Maynooth in 2009 for her research on trauma and memory amongst Australia’s Stolen Generations. She is co- Irish Journal of Anthropology Volume 14(1) 2011 3 author with Mark Maguire of After Asylum: Integration and Everyday Life in Ireland (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2011) Email: [email protected] Ioannis Tsioulakis is a Tutor in Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology at Queen’s University Belfast. He lectures undergraduate and postgraduate students on topics including research methods in anthropology, urban ethnomusicology, popular music and politics, and Greek music. He completed his PhD at Queen’s University Belfast. Contact: School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast, 14 University Square, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland. Email: [email protected] Carol Barron Carol Barron is based at the School of Nursing at DCU, conducting research into the areas of play, physical activity and obesity in Irish Primary school aged children from an anthropological perspective. Email: [email protected] Ghassan Hage is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and he is the University of Melbourne’s Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory. Barbara Graham completed her PhD in Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast in 2009.
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