Comments on: Free Running and Extreme Balance

By: Gaming Round Up « Neuroanthropology

Gaming Round Up « Neuroanthropology — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:12:27 +0000

[...] Mirror’s Edge Trailer Some of you know I think parkour/free running is pretty cool. Now it’s in a great-looking game. This clip even includes the running legend Sebastien Foucan, [...]

By: Fall prevention in older people — Stephen Lord at HCSNet « Neuroanthropology

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:08:03 +0000

[...] modularity, and training the brain-body, and Daniel’s post of some great parkour video, Free Running and Extreme Balance). In the longer of these posts (Equilbrium, modularity…), I specifically discussed how the [...]

By: mark (the ideophone)

mark (the ideophone) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:03:34 +0000

I share your hesitation to call this a 'sense', but it should be noted that this also holds for much of the SAE folk model of the five senses (neurophysiologically, there are more like 20+ distinct senses). So much for the neuro part of the story — on the anthropology side, I'm sure you're aware of the fascinating work done under the broad heading of 'anthropology of the senses'. On the 'sense of balance' specifically, there are the studies by Geurts (2002a,b) of the culturally constructed sensorium in an African community, where this 'sense of balance' is much more elaborated than in some other cultural settings (think headloading). * Geurts, Kathryn Linn. 2002a. On Rocks, Walks, and Talks In West Africa: Cultural Categories and an Anthropology of the Senses. Ethos 30, no. 3: 178-198. doi:doi:10.1525/eth.2002.30.3.178. * Geurts, Kathryn Linn. 2002b. Culture and the Senses: Bodily ways of knowing in an African community. Berkeley: University of California Press.