Affect as cultural critique : methods for ethnographic uncovering / edited by Daniel White, Emma E. Cook, and Andrea De Antoni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, Daniel, 1980- editor.

Cook, Emma E., editor.

De Antoni, Andrea, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Anthropological aspects.

Emotions.

Affect (Psychology)--Research--Methodology.

Affect (Psychology).

Culture--Research--Methodology.

Culture.

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

vii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Affect as Cultural Critique assembles leading anthropologists, affect theorists, and artist-activist scholars to ask, what if the most constructive response to moments of ethnographic puzzlement was not the formulation of an answer but the cultivation of a feeling? What if understanding the powerful effects of discourses requires somatic rather than semiotic exercises? And where habits of academic professionalism prohibit experiencing possible worlds - what if anthropology as a discipline could leverage affect to differently connect and cultivate collaboration with others? In line with growing movements to decolonize the academy, the essays in Affect as Cultural Critique feature ethnographic accounts of people actively describing, experimenting with, and otherwise exercising affect in ways that challenge the academy's inherited models for analyzing emotional life. Through an experimental collection of traditional ethnographic essays and artist-activist-generated critiques, this volume explores how everyday modes of feeling function as methods of knowing. By centering non-academic and non-Western affective practices as answers to traditional theoretical problems generated primarily by Western theorists, Affect as Cultural Critique seeks new trajectories for the discipline through a rediscovery of discovery itself as a guiding professional aim, as methodological inspiration, and as a source of reflexive critique of the discipline's philosophical and theory-heavy analytics."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Affect as cultural critique.

ISBN:

1487559798

9781487559793

OCLC:

1527663342

Publisher Number:

90104370113