Extraordinary anthropology transformations in the field

Goulet, Jean-Guy. (Added Author). Miller, Bruce Granville, 1951- (Added Author).

Summary: What happens when anthropologists lose themselves during fieldwork while attempting to understand divergent cultures? When they stray from rigorous agendas and are forced to confront radically unexpected or unexplained experiences? In "Extraordinary Anthropology" leading ethnographers from across the globe discuss the importance of the deeply personal and emotionally volatile "ecstatic" side of fieldwork. Anthropologists who have worked in communities in Central America, North America, Australia, Africa, and Asia share their intimate experiences of tranformations in the field through details of significant dreams, haunting visions, and their own conflicting emotional tensions. Their experiences demonstrate the necessary fluidity of research agendas, the value of going beyond an accepted (and safe) cultural and academic vantage point, and the inevitability of wrestling with tension and unhappiness when faced with irreconcilable cultural and psychological dichotomies. The contributors explore ways in which conventional research methods can be adapted to creatively engage the intellectual, ethical, and practical dimensions of these dislocations and capitalize on them. Unsettling and revealing, "Extraordinary Anthropology" will spark debate and reflection among anthropologists for years to come.

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ISBN: 9780803206984 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0803206984 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1281376450
ISBN: 9781281376459
ISBN: 9780803259928 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0803259921 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-446) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface; Acknowledgments; Map of communities discussed; Introduction: Embodied Knowledge; Part One: Beyond Our Known Worlds; 1. On Puzzling Wavelengths; 2. On Presence; 3. Reveal or Conceal?; Part Two: Entanglements and Faithfulness to Experience; 4. Recursive Epistemologies and an Ethics of Attention; 5. Ethnographic Rendez-vous; 6. When the Extraordinary Hits Home; 7. Prophecy, Sorcery, and Reincarnation; Part Three: Epistemological and Ethical Thresholds; 8. The Politics of Ecstatic Research; 9. Moving Beyond Culturally Bound Ethical Guidelines.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.