Thomas Stodulka

Ferdiansyah Thajib

Samia Dinkelaker

This book illustrates the role of researchers’ affects and emotions in understanding and making sense of the phenomena they study during ethnographic fieldwork. Whatever methods ethnographers apply during field research, however close they get to their informants and no matter how involved or detached they feel, fieldwork pushes them to constantly negotiate and reflect their subjectivities and positionalities in relation to the persons, communities, spaces and phenomena they study. The book highlights the idea that ethnographic fieldwork is based on the attempt of communication, mutual understanding, and perspective-taking on behalf of and together with those studied. With regard to the institutionally silenced, yet informally emphasized necessity of ethnographers’ emotional immersion into the local worlds they research (defined as “emic perspective,” “narrating through the eyes of the Other,” “seeing the world from the informants’ point of view,” etc.), this book pursues the disentanglement of affect-related disciplinary conventions by means of transparent, vivid and systematic case studies and their methodological discussion. The book provides nineteen case studies on the relationship between methodology, intersubjectivity, and emotion in qualitative and ethnographic research, and includes six section introductions to the pivotal issues of role conflict, reciprocity, intimacy and care, illness and dying, failing and attuning, and emotion regimes in fieldwork and ethnography. Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography is a must-have resource for post-graduate students and researchers across the disciplines of social and cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, cultural psychology, critical theory, cultural phenomenology, and cultural sociology.

Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography

Kristina Mashimi

Envisioning Anthropological Futures (and Provincializing their Origins)

This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of resorting to a dreadful discourse of pity and despair. The ethnography's multi-vocal narrative couples vivid accounts of ethnographic case studies and life stories with current theory on affect, emotion, empathy, structural violence or social interaction in the context of marginality, stigma and chronic illness.

Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness

Coming of Age on the Streets of Java

Birgitt Röttger-Rössler

This book integrates social anthropological, political, and historical perspectives on the emotional impact of marginalization, stigmatization and violence in present-day Indonesia. The authors' combined focus on regional particularities and universal dimensions of experiencing and dealing with social, economic and psychological adversities targets scholars who share regional interest in the archipelago and researchers concerned with theoretical aspects of the interplay between power asymmetries, agency, emotion and culture.

Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia

Feelings at the Margins

Katja Liebal

Oliver Lubrich

Wie verarbeitet ein Dokumentarfilmer die Geschichten von Siebzigjährigen, die damit prahlen, Tausende von »Kommunisten« erdrosselt und deren Blut getrunken zu haben? Wie verhandelt ein Wissenschaftler Abscheu oder Begeisterung für Menschen anderer Kulturen, über die er als teilnehmender Beobachter nüchtern zu schreiben hat? Und was empfindet eine Primatologin nach jahrzehntelangen Kämpfen für das Überleben von Menschenaffen, deren Lebensraum zunehmend zerstört wird? Diesen und weiteren Fragen geht der Band in einer Reihe von Gesprächen mit Wissenschaftler_innen nach - u.a. mit Jane Goodall, Nigel Barley, Joshua Oppenheimer und Hans Christoph Buch.

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