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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.
List of contents
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Foreword Tim Ingold Acknowledgements
Introduction: Lines of Flight
Julie Laplante, Willow Scobie and Ari Gandsman Part I: Sensing Chapter 1. Sonorous Sensations: Plant, People and Elemental Stirs in Healing
Julie Laplante Vignette 1: Plant Milieus: (In)Hospitalities
Daniel Alberto Restrepo Hernández Vignette 2: Breath of Fresh Air
Boyan Atzev Chapter 2. Sensing 'Feeling' in Indonesia's Persatuan Gerak Badan (Body Movement Unification) School
Jaida Kim Samudra Chapter 3. Drumming with Winds: Learning from Zar Practitioners in Qeshm Island, Iran
Nima Jangouk Vignette 3: Ethnography Through Anxiety
Angeline Antonakos Boswell Chapter 4. Fieldwork Aloft - Experiencing Weather and Air in Falconry
Sara Asu Schroer Part II: Moving Chapter 5. Travelling through Layers: Inuitness
in Flight Willow Scobie Vignette 4: Internet Techniques for an Untimely Anthropology
Meg Stalcup Vignette 5: Hauling Water
Carly Dokis Chapter 6. Alex la Guma and the Smell of Freedom
Giovanni Spissu Chapter 7. (Re)Turning Manifold-ish Along with Mongolian Reindeer Herd(er)s - Trial(s) by Vagary
Nicolas Rasiulis Chapter 8. Enskilment into the Environment:
The Yijin jing Worlds of Jin and
Qi Elisabeth Hsu and Chee Han Lim Part III: Imagining Chapter 9. Live to Tell - In and Out of View in the Interview
Ari Gandsman Vignette 6: Against Ethnographic Disappointment, or on the Importance of Listerning
Larisa Kurtovic Vignette 7: The Discursive Archive
Thushara Hewage Chapter 10. On Failing to Learn to Shoot a Gun
Bradley Dunseith Chapter 11. Wondering Winds: Alpine Fire Lookouts in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Kristen Anne Walsh Chapter 12. Ethnography as Bewitchment: A Literary Study of Jeanne Favret-Saada's Deadly Words
Bernhard Leistle Afterword: Meta-odos (Or the Inscription of Fieldwork)
David Jaclin Vignette 8: Inner Experience and Ethnographic Yoga
Everett Kehew Epilogue Julie Laplante Index
About the author
Julie Laplante is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Ottawa in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies (SSAS).
Ari Gandsman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Ottawa in the SSAS.
Willow Scobie is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa in the SSAS.
Summary
Reigniting a tradition of learning by experience, Search After Method is a plea for more lively forms of anthropology. The chapters relate the contributor’s first experiences of working in the field and use their experiences to link their work to the discipline of Anthropology, along with other broader fieldwork questions.
