“Tocar de peus a terra i fer volar coloms”. Leisure walking in Berguedà in anthropological perspective
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56247/qua.425Keywords:
Walking, walking ethnography, co-creation, hiking, walking tourism, mobile methods.Abstract
This article presents a methodological and theoretical exploration of the meanings and practices related to group walking in nature.
Based on a consideration of walking as a
practice of observation with a triple object -the self, the environment and the sociability- the study aims to investigate group walking as a cognitive practice and one that (co)creates shared meanings. The main objective is to
examine what happens along a group walk that can lead to particular perceptions of the self, the surrounding places and the social interactions
with the people with whom one shares the path.
The fieldwork that supports the analysis is based on 25 group walks with seven different stable groups and a total of 120 participants, with a methodological approach where the first author played a triple role: walker, guide and ethnographer. The analysis reveals three
dimensions of group walking: its intentionality, an element that highlights how this form of movement has transformed throughout history
and the individual biographical itineraries; its cognitive function, engaged through the connection between the feet and the imagination; the relationship with the environment, namely for its potential to activate shared knowledge about the surroundings.
Downloads
References
Arias, D. (2017). Etnografía en movimento para explorar trayectorias de niños y jóvenes en Barcelona. Revista de Antropología Social, 26(1), 93-102. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/RASO.56044
Caraballo Acuña, V. & Ramírez Pérez, D. (2020). Antropologías y etnografías de los caminos. Introducción al dossier. Revista de Antropología y Sociología: Virajes, 23(1), 1-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17151/rasv.2021.23.1.1
Careri, F. (2013). Walkscapes. El andar como práctica estética. Gustavo Gili.
García Farrero, J. (2014). Presencia de la pedagogía en el acto de caminar: homo viātor, nomadismo y formación. Teoría de la Educación. Educación y Cultura en la Sociedad de la Información, 15(4), 56-84. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14201/eks.12346
Hunter, R.F, Garcia, L., de Sa, T.H et al. (2021). Effect of COVID-19 response policies on walking behavior in US cities. Nat Commun, 12(3652 ).
doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23937-9 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23937-9
Ingold, T. (2018). La vida de las líneas. Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado.
Ingold, T. (2017). On human correspondence. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(1), 9-27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12541
Ingold, T. (2015). Líneas. Una breve historia. Editorial Gedisa.
Ingold, T. (2012). Ambientes para la vida. Ediciones Trilce.
Ingold, T. (2011). Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge, and Description. Routledge.
Ingold, T. (2010b). Ways of mind-walking: reading, writing, painting. Visual Studies, 25, 15-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14725861003606712
Ingold, T. (2010a). Footprints through the weather-world: walking, breathing, knowing. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16, 121-139. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2010.01613.x DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2010.01613.x
Ingold, T. (2004). Culture on the Ground: The World Perceived Through the Feet. Journal of Material Culture, 9(3), 315–340. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183504046896 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183504046896
Ingold, T., & Vergunst, J. L. (2008). Introduction. A J. L. Vergunst, & T. Ingold, Ways of Walking: Ethnography and Practice on Foot (p. 1-19). Ashgate Publishing.
Kantar. (2021). Estudio sobre movilidad activa y los hábitos de caminar. Zurich Seguros. https://www.zurich.es/documents/877376/1106815/Estudio-movilidad-activa-habitos-caminar-Z urich-Seguros.pdf/5372f681-1699-03b6-9108-88a05126c8e3?t=1622098612499
Kusenbach, M. (2003). Street Phenomenology: The Go-Along as Ethnographic Research Tool. Ethnography, 4(3), 455–485. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/146613810343007 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/146613810343007
Le Breton, D. (2015). Elogio del caminar. Siruela.
Lee, J., & Ingold, T. (2006). Fieldwork on Foot: Perceiving, Routing, Socializing. A S.
Coleman, & P. Collins, Locating the Field. Routledge.
O’Neill, M., & Roberts, B. (2019). Walking Methods: Research on the Move. Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315646442
Pellicer, I., Vivas-Elias, P., & Rojas, J. (2013). La observación participante y la deriva: dos técnicas móviles para el análisis de la ciudad contemporánea. El caso de Barcelona. EURE , 39(116), 119-139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612013000100005
Porter, G. E. (2010). Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey from school. Children’s Geographies, 8(2), 91-105. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14733281003691343
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1997 [1770]). Las confesiones (trad. Mauro Armiño). Alianza Editorial.
Sheller, M., & Urry, J. (2018). Movilizando el nuevo paradigma de las movilidades. Revista del Área de Estudios Urbanos Quid, 16(10), 333-355.
Solnit, R. (2015). Wanderlust. Una historia del caminar. Capitan Swing.
Szakolczai, A., & Horvath, A. (2022). Sociology of Walking. A G. Ritzer, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Wiley.
Tironi, M. (2018). Introducción. A M. Tironi, & G. Mora, Caminando. Prácticas, corporalidades y afectos en la ciudad (p. 15-33). Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado.
Turner, V.W. (1988). El Proceso ritual : estructura y antiestructura. Taurus.
Vergunst, J. (2011). Technology and Technique in a Useful Ethnography of Movement. Mobilities, 6(2), 203-219. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2011.552900
Winkler, J. (2010). Working on the experience of passing environments: On commented walks. A J. Winkler, Space, sound and time (p. 21-27). www.iacsa.eu/jw/winkler_space-sound-time_10-09-19.pdf
