| Mutuality and Empathy: Self and Other in the Ethnographic Encounter Contributor(s): Grnseth, Anne Sigfrid (Editor), Davis, Dona Lee (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0955640059 ISBN-13: 9780955640056 Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Social Science | Methodology |
| Dewey: 305.8 |
| Series: Anthropology Matters |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.97 lbs) 186 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |