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.…
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 emotion…
Exploring the emotions of anthropologists arising during fieldwork and their role in how we gain ethnographic knowledge, this book explains how they 'manage' emotions or allow them to unfold as vehicles of knowing.