The topic of my essay was ethnography of wild camping. At first, I found there have very little academic articles about wild camping. UAL don’t have the access to few article I found on google scholars about wild camping which one called Satisfaction in camping: A conceptualization and guide to social research. I sound very related to my essay which I was disappointed that I don’t have access to this article.
Then I started to twist the perspective of my essay which lead me to ethnography of nature and also how nature can heal psychologically. I found a journal article talks a lot about different research and experiments regard this topic. Firstly, talked about what made people feel recovered which it pointed out that it can’t be done with only one sensory. For example, showing the picture of nature only to the patient were not effective at all. They may even related it to loneness. However, when they immersed sounds and visual element of nature, patient have more positive reaction.
The other point that interested me in the article is the experiment of white and pink noise. They play white and pink noise to the participants, and told one groups that is waterfall and tell it is machinery to the others. The result was the waterfall group would consider it as relax soundscape. The restorative property of natural sounds are depends on the perspective of the listener and also how recognisable the sound are.