I am currently preparing for my next field-site by undertaking Language training in Brazilian Portuguese and Capoeira classes with groups located in Australia.

A sociocerebral ethnography of Pencak Silat

  • Ethnographic Fieldwork.
  • Practice-based research.
  • Cultural neuroanthropology.
  • In-situ participant-observation.
  • Apprenticeship-focused methods.
  • Neuroethological co-phenomenology.
  • Distributed-cognition system-mapping.
  • Context-sensitive neuro-cultural analysis.

Preparation

  • Kendang lessons
  • Language training
  • Pencak Silat lessons
  • Fieldsite development
  • Indonesian dance lessons

With special Thanks to:

  • Dr Uwe Paetzold for putting me in contact with various researchers and Pencak Silat teachers as well as his generous time offering me advice and sharing his cast knowledge and ethnographic footage of Pencak Silat.
  • Eric Chatelier for his generous sharing of footage and information