| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
This book investigates how anthropologists can make use of the emotions fieldwork generates within them to deepen their understanding of the communities they study. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Psychological aspects.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork. |
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Psychological aspects. |
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Emotions -- Anthropological aspects.
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Emotions -- Anthropological aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Davies, James (James Peter)
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Spencer, Dimitrina.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Emotions in the field. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804769396 (OCoLC)467924400 |
| ISBN |
9780804774260 (ebook) |
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0804774269 (ebook) |
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9780804769396 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804769397 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804769402 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0804769400 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
3141538 |
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