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Exceptional experiences : engaging with jolting events in art and fieldwork / edited by Petra Rethmann and Helena Wulff.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Fieldwork.
- Anthropology.
- Art and anthropology.
- Experience.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker's experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art. By exploring exceptional experiences through art, the volume asks probing questions for anthropology. In recognizing that art is all-encompassing - including, as it does, narrative, performance, dance and images - Exceptional Experiences situates itself within a number of conversations on methodological and conceptual issues in anthropology and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Exceptional Experiences
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. Experiencing and Conceptualizing the Exceptional
- Chapter 1. To Be Stunned
- Chapter 2. Looking at the African Masks at Musée du Trocadéro - He Understood …
- Chapter 3. Art and Anthropology in Graphic Form
- Chapter 4. Exceptional Experiences in Academic Life
- Chapter 5. The Exceptionalism of Art as Disclosure of Deepest Truth
- Part II. Literary Realms of the Exceptional
- Chapter 6. Haunted Reading/Haunting Johnson
- Chapter 7. Sacred Muses
- Chapter 8. Experiential Literary Ethnography
- Part III. Exceptional Visual and Practice Experiences
- Chapter 9. Lighting Praxis
- Chapter 10. 'Hammered by the Image'
- Chapter 11. Shaking up Worlds, Opening up Horizons
- Chapter 12. Participant Growing-Places in and of the World
- Afterword
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781805390213
- 180539021X
- OCLC:
- 1381712267
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