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Stewart Muir
Researcher at University of Manchester
Publications - 4
Citations - 75
Stewart Muir is an academic researcher from University of Manchester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Family traditions & Feeling. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 69 citations.
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Capturing Christmas: The Sensory Potential of Data from Participant Produced Video
Stewart Muir,Jennifer Mason +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the use of participant-produced digital footage of family Christmases, collected as part of a larger project exploring family backgrounds and family traditions, for exploring family traditions.
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Conjuring up Traditions: atmospheres, eras and family Christmases
Jennifer Mason,Stewart Muir +1 more
TL;DR: The sociological significance of family Christmas traditions lies not so much in the detail of their content, albeit this is important, but in the ways that they are implicated in the atmospheres, eras and generational dynamics of family life as discussed by the authors.
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Real People: Authenticity and Aboriginality in the Australian Holistic Milieu
TL;DR: In practice, however, faith in this vision had to be reaffirmed in the face of Australian Aboriginal people who did not match the ideal as mentioned in this paper, and maintaining faith in a useable Aboriginal alterity thus required negotiating the tensions between competing constructions of the genuine as either personal authenticity, adherence to tradition, or genealogical essence.
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Australian alternative spiritualities and a feeling for land
TL;DR: For many Australian practitioners of alternative spiritualities, nature and the non-human environment are alive with significance: they embody a universal divine ‘spirit that is both independent of, and continuous with, individual subjects as mentioned in this paper.