Mutuality and Empathy Self and Other in the Ethnographic Encounter |
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| Editor:
| Grønseth, Anne Sigfrid
Davis, Dona Lee |
| Contribution by:
| Anderson, Theresa Dirndorfer
Bacchiddu, Giovanna
Larsen, Anne Kathrine
Maurstad, Anita
Nadel-Klein, Jane
Rapport, Nigel
Davis, Dorothy I. |
| Series title: | Anthropology Matters Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9556400-5-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2010 |
| Publisher: | Sean Kingston Publishing
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $99.99 |
Book Description:
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Focusing on issues of empathy and mutuality, and self and other, as experienced in the everyday challenges of doing participant-observation fieldwork, this volume makes a significant contribution to rethinking the experiential and conceptual construction of the field. The contributors adopt a critical and self reflexive approach that goes beyond issues
of voice and representation raised by early postmodern anthropology, to grapple with issues concerning the nature of knowledge...
More DescriptionFocusing on issues of empathy and mutuality, and self and other, as experienced in the everyday challenges of doing participant-observation fieldwork, this volume makes a significant contribution to rethinking the experiential and conceptual construction of the field. The contributors adopt a critical and self reflexive approach that goes beyond issues
of voice and representation raised by early postmodern anthropology, to grapple with issues concerning the nature of knowledge transmission that lie at the very heart of the ethnographic effort. They explore how multiple modes of attending, awareness and sense making can shape the ethnographic process. Of note are those unanticipated, less palpable
forms of communication that are peripheral to or transcend more formalized and structured research methods and agendas. Among these are empathy, intuition, somatic modes of attention and/or embodied knowledge and identification, as well as, shared sensory experiences and aesthetics.