Yolanda van Ede- PhD Assistant Professor
- Senior Lecturer at University of Amsterdam
Yolanda van Ede
- PhD Assistant Professor
- Senior Lecturer at University of Amsterdam
teaching, making art, writing
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Introduction
Works at the Anthropology department, University of Amsterdam. She received her PhD on the thesis, 'House of Birds: an Ethnohistory of a Tibetan Nunnery in Nepal' in 1999. Her interests thereafter have been epistemology, performance and the senses, conducting ethnographic research in Tokyo and Manilla on dance. In 2021, she graduated in fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. Her teaching now combines anthropology and the arts.
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In “Culture on the Ground,” Tim Ingold states that “a more grounded approach to human movement, sensitive to embodied skills of footwork, opens up new terrain in the study of environmental perception, the history of technology, landscape formation and human anatomical evolution” (2004:315). In “Being Alive” he continues this argument, explaining th...
The indigenization and domestication of foreign (western) culture in Japan has, according to Koichi Iwabuchi, led to an increasing variety of ‘modes of indigenized modernities’. Flamenco dancing, I argue, presents one such mode. Since the 1980s, Japanese women have been appropriating and adapting flamenco, an assumed local, ‘authentic’ Spanish genr...
Sensuous analysis of Spanish flamenco as learned and taught in Japan reveals that dance genres in the global flow lead to the emergence of localized, distinct styles. During the past few decades flamenco in Japan has become Japanese flamenco, because Japanese dancers and instructors apply a different sensory model in their modes of transmission fro...
Academic interest in the senses has been increasing massively. Particularly in the social sciences and the humanities, the multisensory approach criticises the ocularcentrism as launched by Enlightenment scholars. Studies started drawing attention to other sensory models in everyday life in western societies and in non-western cultures. This essay...
