Emotions in the field
Subtitle: the psychology and anthropology of fieldwork experience
By: edited by James Davies and Dimitrina Spencer.
Contributors: Davies, James; Spencer, Dimitrina.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780804769396; 9780804769402
Subjects: Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Psychological aspects; Emotions -- Anthropological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : emotions in the field / James Davies; title: From anxiety to method in anthropological fieldwork : an appraisal of George Devereux's enduring ideas / Michael Jackson; title: At the heart of the discipline : critical reflections on fieldwork / Vincent Crapanzano; title: Disorientation, dissonance, and altered perception in the field / James Davies; title: Using emotion as a form of knowledge in a psychiatric fieldwork setting / Francine Lorimer; title: Hating Israel in the field : on ethnography and political emotions / Ghassan Hage; title: Tian'anmen in Yunnan : emotions in the field during a political crisis / Elisabeth Hsu; title: Emotional engagements : acknowledgement, advocacy, and direct action / Lindsay Smith and Arthur Kleinman; title: Emotional topographies : the sense of place in the far north / Kirsten Hastrup; title: What counts as data? / Tanya Luhrmann; title: Ascetic practice and participant observation, or, The gift of doubt in field experience / Joanna Cook; title: Conclusion : relational anthropology / Dimitrina Spencer.