A Position in the Field: Aboriginal Experiences of Cricket in Western Australia

This thesis explores the ways in which individuals make sense of and engage with social fields; revealing the role of habitus and disposition as animators of social experience and the field as lived experience that endures in memory, narrative and embodied practice. I show how ethnographic interview...

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Main Author: Chadwick, Ross Raymond
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69426
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description This thesis explores the ways in which individuals make sense of and engage with social fields; revealing the role of habitus and disposition as animators of social experience and the field as lived experience that endures in memory, narrative and embodied practice. I show how ethnographic interviews, and their capacity to invoke the field and its contexts, are an effective way of engaging anthropologically with narrative lives, as a rich resource for exploring social practice.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-694262018-08-13T07:52:36Z A Position in the Field: Aboriginal Experiences of Cricket in Western Australia Chadwick, Ross Raymond This thesis explores the ways in which individuals make sense of and engage with social fields; revealing the role of habitus and disposition as animators of social experience and the field as lived experience that endures in memory, narrative and embodied practice. I show how ethnographic interviews, and their capacity to invoke the field and its contexts, are an effective way of engaging anthropologically with narrative lives, as a rich resource for exploring social practice. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69426 Curtin University fulltext
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url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69426