|aEmotions in the field :|bthe psychology and anthropology of fieldwork experience /|cedited by James Davies and Dimitrina Spencer.
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|aStanford, Calif. :|bStanford University Press,|c2010.
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|axi, 276 p. ;|c23 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aFrom 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 -- Conclusion : relational anthropology / 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.