Flowerman

• Main Author: Amanda Ravetz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Bucharest 2014-12-01
• Series: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology
• Subjects: Reverie; practice-led research; creativity; poetics of space
• Online Access: http://compaso.eu/wpd/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Compaso2014-52-Ravetz.pdf

I am engaged in a project about reverie, using poetics and storytelling as my method. Where does one person’s reverie start and another’s end? What uses might anthropology have for reverie? Taking the form of a braided narrative, Flowerman, meshes my voice with others to explore the entanglements of reverie, its fundamental inter-subjectivity. But rather than call this autobiography or autoethnography, I regard it as a form of inter-subjective practice-led research, aimed at shared understanding. To speak of practice-led research is to evoke the precepts of artistic research as much as those of anthropology. Artistic research does not imagine a separation between knowledge production, and making processes. The insights yielded here through making, and reflection on making, are folded back into the practices of storytelling.