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Talking about masturbatory practices with sperm donors and the meaning of masturbation as part of sperm donation I came to realize that embodied knowledge about masturbation played a role as a narrative space in which sperm donors met me during the interviews. Simultaneously, being confronted with masturbation during participant observation at sperm banks I became aware of the political economies entailed in this knowledge. I want to use my input to reflect together with the other participants on the role of embodied knowledge for the ethnographic method as well as the political economies entailed in using this knowledge in order to gain understanding about the field and its dominant logics: how does embodied knowledge translate into understanding what is at stake within a particular field and how does it inform our way of doing research? How does one meet the challenges of applying embodied knowledge to one’s research? And how does one negotiate the intricate interplay between embodied knowledge and power relations as part of fieldwork?| Period | 10 Jun 2013 |
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| Event title | Impediments and Catalysts: 4th Annual Meeting of Medical Anthropolgy Young Scholars |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Tarragona, SpainShow on map |