| Title | 10.ETHNOGRAPHY OF WORKING COWHORSES |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | RHYMING SENSORY METHODS |
| Contributor | Andrea Petitt(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.63308/63878687083054.ch10 |
| Landing page | https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/03/04/meam-2/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Andrea Petitt |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Published on | 2025-07-01 |
| Long abstract | Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork on working cattle ranches in the Rocky Mountain of Colorado, this ethnographic poem speaks to the multisensory and multispecies methods necessary to understand the power relations infused in the multispecies triad of human, horse and cow in a ranching setting. Arguing for pushing the frontier of sensory ethnography to include what Petitt has framed as ‘energy bubbles’, this piece strives to bring heightened attention to the dynamic nuances of non-human power performances. The rapstract typically breaks the ‘fourth wall’ in directly spelling out the analytical moves by its author, in addition to the elements of field poetry portraying the ethnographic setting. In addition, this rhyme also refers explicitly to method whilst simultaneously showcasing the artful method of rhyming/poetry itself. |
| Page range | pp. 194–201 |
| Print length | 8 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Andrea Petitt is currently working as a researcher at Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle (LASC) at Université de Liège, Belgium, and is affiliated with the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. Andrea has worked on long-term multispecies ethnography research projects based on fieldwork in Botswana, Sweden and Colorado, with shorter stints in Nepal, Canada, Ethiopia and Tanzania. Increasingly, Andrea has worked with, and developed, artistic and ‘artful’ research methods for data collection, analysis and dissemination and has given a number of workshops on the subject for Ph.D. students and Faculty across Sweden and internationally. In 2022 Andrea instigated and co-founded together with Véronique Servais, Anke Tonnaer and Catrien Notermans the international MEAM network for Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methods. She led and co-organised with the same team an online MEAM workshop in 2022 as well as the hybrid inaugural MEAM conference in July Liège 2023.