Anthropological fieldwork: a relational process
by Davies, James, (Davies, James Peter) Spencer, Dimitrina
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 contributors …
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- Full title :Anthropological fieldwork : a relational process / edited by Dimitrina Spencer and James Davies
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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 contributors to this volume propose new ways of practising emotional reflexivity (such as radical empiricism) that enhance anthropological knowledge. Emotions in anthropology are explored from a variety of methodological and theoretical standpoints, drawing on fieldwork in Nepal, the UK, Taiwan, Russia, India and the Philippines. The volume advances a relational vision of fieldwork regarding participant observation as an embodied relational process. It strongly advocates that 'emotional reflexivity' must complement the wider reflexive task of anthropologists if fieldwork is to reveal its fullest potential. This makes particular demands on the training of anthropologists and the volume discusses critically current training provision and proposes new ways of facilitating emotional reflexivity (such as radical empiricism) that can enhance anthropological understanding
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- Publication Date:2010
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Place of Publication:Newcastle upon Tyne
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010
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- Description:viii, 259 s
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781443817547, 1443817546
- oclc:ocn769365975
- LC Classification:GN346
- Dewey Decimal:305.800723
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