Making Matrice: Intersubjectivity in Ethnography and Art

Afterword: Political Ethnography as Art and Science

Adam Ashforth has written one of the recent political ethnographies I most admire. His Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa draws on a total of about three years’ residence during the 1990s in Soweto (South West Township), an Apartheid-built black suburb of Johannesburg, plus subsequent visits to his adopted family and friends there. Earlier, Ashforth wrote an impressive historic...

Focusing , Intersubjectivity , and “ Therapeutic Intersubjectivity ”

Enactive intersubjectivity: Participatory sense-making and mutual incorporation

Current theories of social cognition are mainly based on a representationalist view. Moreover, they focus on a rather sophisticated and limited aspect of understanding others, i.e. on how we predict and explain others’ behaviours through representing their mental states. Research into the ‘social brain’ has also favoured a third-person paradigm of social cognition as a passive observation of ot...

Designing with Ethnography: Making Work Visible

One of the main challenges that has come to face system designers in the last decade had been to accomplish an adequate characterisation of the social properties of the work settings into which systems have to fit. Grudin (1990:261) describes this as an "outward movement of the computer's interface to its external environment, from hardware to software to increasingly higher-level cognitive cap...

a study on rate making and required reserves determination in reinsurance market: a simulation

reinsurance is widely recognized as an important instrument in the capital management of an insurance company as well as its risk management tool. this thesis is intended to determine premium rates for different types of reinsurance policies. also, given the fact that the reinsurance coverage of every company depends upon its reserves, so different types of reserves and the method of their calc...