Mutuality and Empathy : Self and Other in the Ethnographic Encounter Hardback
Edited by Anne Sigfrid Gronseth, Dona Lee Davis
Part of the Anthropology Matters series
Hardback
Description
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 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.
By the elaboration of such concepts the volume as a whole offers a substantial elaboration of a phenomenological approach.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:188 pages, black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Sean Kingston Publishing
- Publication Date:30/06/2010
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- ISBN:9780955640056
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:188 pages, black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Sean Kingston Publishing
- Publication Date:30/06/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780955640056
