Anthropological fieldwork: a relational process

by Davies, James, (James Peter) Spencer, Dimitrina

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Anthropologists are affected by and affect others through emotional engagement; they ""manage"" emotions or allow them to unfold as vehicles of understanding. The contributors to this volume argue that participant observation is an embodied relational process mediated by emotions. If fieldwork is to attain its fullest potential, emotional reflexivity must complement the wider reflexive task of anthropologists. This makes particular demands on the training of anthropologists, and the contributor…

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Full title :Anthropological fieldwork : a relational process / edited by Dimitrina Spencer and James Davies.

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Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Place of Publication:Newcastle upon Tyne
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

Notes

"The conference 'Emotions in the Field: the Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience' in September 2006 at the University of Oxford."--Page 2

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Description:1 online resource (viii, 259 pages)

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oclc:ocn761274870
LC Classification:GN346
Dewey Decimal:305.800723

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Anthropologie -- Congrès. -- Recherche … Anthropology -- Congresses. -- Fieldwork Anthropology -- Fieldwork Conference papers and proceedings Electronic books Emotions -- Anthropological aspects Emotions -- Congresses. -- Anthropologi… Ethnologie -- Congrès. -- Recherche sur… Ethnology -- Congresses. -- Fieldwork