Emotions in the field : the psychology and anthropology of fieldwork experience / edited by James Davies and Dimitrina Spencer.

This book investigates how anthropologists can make use of the emotions fieldwork generates within them to deepen their understanding of the communities they study.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Davies, James (James Peter), Spencer, Dimitrina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : emotions in the field / James Davies
  • From anxiety to method in anthropological fieldwork : an appraisal of George Devereux's enduring ideas / Michael Jackson
  • "At the heart of the discipline" : critical reflections on fieldwork / Vincent Crapanzano
  • Disorientation, dissonance, and altered perception in the field / James Davies
  • Using emotion as a form of knowledge in a psychiatric fieldwork setting / Francine Lorimer
  • Hating Israel in the field : on ethnography and political emotions / Ghassan Hage
  • Tian'anmen in Yunnan : emotions in the field during a political crisis / Elisabeth Hsu
  • Emotional engagements : acknowledgement, advocacy, and direct action / Lindsay Smith and Arthur Kleinman
  • Emotional topographies : the sense of place in the far north / Kirsten Hastrup
  • What counts as data? / Tanya Luhrmann
  • Ascetic practice and participant observation, or, The gift of doubt in field experience / Joanna Cook.