Search After Method : : Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Fieldwork / / ed. by Julie Laplante, Ari Gandsman, Willow Scobie.

Reigniting a tradition of learning from experience, Search After Method is a plea for livelier forms of anthropology. The anthropologists in the collection recount their experiences of working in the field, framed within a range of anthropological debates. The book thus provides accounts of lived ex...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 40
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Physical Description:1 online resource (278 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
FIGURES --
FOREWORD --
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
INTRODUCTION: LINES OF FLIGHT --
PART I Sensing --
Chapter 1 SONOROUS SENSATIONS: PLANT, PEOPLE, AND ELEMENTAL STIRS IN HEALING Chapter 2 SENSING “FEELING” IN INDONESIA’S PERSATUAN GERAK BADAN (BODY MOVEMENT UNIFICATION) SCHOOL --
Chapter 2 SENSING “FEELING” IN INDONESIA’S PERSATUAN GERAK BADAN (BODY MOVEMENT UNIFICATION) SCHOOL --
Chapter 3 DRUMMING WITH WINDS: LEARNING FROM ZAR PRACTITIONERS IN QESHM ISLAND, IRAN --
Chapter 4 FIELDWORK ALOFT: EXPERIENCING WEATHER AND AIR IN FALCONRY --
PART II Moving --
Chapter 5 TRAVELING THROUGH LAYERS: INUITNESS IN FLIGHT --
Chapter 6 ALEX LA GUMA AND THE SMELL OF FREEDOM --
Chapter 7 (RE)TURNING MANIFOLD-ISH ALONG WITH MONGOLIAN REINDEER HERD(ER)S: TRIAL(S) BY VAGARY --
Chapter 8 ENSKILMENT INTO THE ENVIRONMENT: THE YIJIN JING WORLDS OF JIN AND QI --
PART III Imagining --
Chapter 9 LIVE TO TELL: IN AND OUT OF VIEW IN THE INTERVIEW --
Chapter 10 ON FAILING TO LEARN TO SHOOT A GUN --
Chapter 11 WONDERING WINDS: ALPINE FIRE LOOKOUTS IN THE CANADIAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS --
Chapter 12 ETHNOGRAPHY AS BEWITCHMENT: A LITERARY STUDY OF JEANNE FAVRET-SAADA’S DEADLY WORDS --
AFTERWORD: META-ODOS (OR THE INSCRIPTION OF FIELDWORK) --
EPILOGUE --
INDEX
Summary:Reigniting a tradition of learning from experience, Search After Method is a plea for livelier forms of anthropology. The anthropologists in the collection recount their experiences of working in the field, framed within a range of anthropological debates. The book thus provides accounts of lived experiences from both extensive and contemporary fieldwork as well as offering solutions for how to evolve the art of anthropological research beyond what is currently imagined.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781789208849
9783110997699
DOI:10.1515/9781789208849?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Julie Laplante, Ari Gandsman, Willow Scobie.