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Extraordinary Anthropology: Transformations in the Field
Jean-Guy A Goulet
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Description for Extraordinary Anthropology: Transformations in the Field
Paperback. 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? This book deals with these questions. Editor(s): Goulet, Jean-Guy A.; Miller, Bruce Granville. Num Pages: 472 pages, Map, index. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 638.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
637g
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803259928
SKU
V9780803259928
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About Jean-Guy A Goulet
Jean-Guy A. Goulet is an anthropologist teaching conflict studies at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. His books include Being Changed by Cross Cultural Encounters: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience and Ways of Knowing: Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Dene Tha (Nebraska 1998). Bruce Granville Miller is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. His books ... Read more
Reviews for Extraordinary Anthropology: Transformations in the Field
In this book, thick ethnographic description, thoughtful analysis, and theoretical postulate borrowed from cognitive psychology, social psychology, anthropology, folklore and history are interwoven into a beautiful fabric so that ethnography in practice emerges in present acts as narratives about the past. . . . The result is an illuminating volume about a complex research method, imbued with spontaneity and much ... Read more