Anthropological fieldwork : a relational process / edited by Dimitrina Spencer and James Davies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spencer, Dimitrina, editor.

Davies, James (James Peter), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Fieldwork--Psychological aspects.

Ethnology.

Emotions--Anthropological aspects.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 259 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2010]

Summary:

Anthropologists are affected by and affect others through emotional engagement; they "manage" emotions or allow them to unfold as vehicles of understanding. The contributors to this volume argue that participant observation is an embodied relational process mediated by emotions. If fieldwork is to attain its fullest potential, emotional reflexivity must complement the wider reflexive task of anthropologists. This makes particular demands on the training of anthropologists, and the contributors to this volume propose new ways of practising emotional reflexivity (such as radical empiricism) that enhance anthropological knowledge. Emotions in anthropology are explored from a variety of methodological and theoretical standpoints, drawing on fieldwork in Nepal, the UK, Taiwan, Russia, India and the Philippines.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Conclusion

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5275-5318-3

OCLC:

761274870