{"product_id":"exceptional-experiences-engaging-with-jolting-events-in-art-and-fieldwork-9781805390206","title":"Exceptional Experiences: Engaging with Jolting","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tLooking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e while looking at art. By exploring exceptional experiences through art, the volume asks probing questions for anthropology. In recognizing that art is all-encompassing – including, as it does, narrative, performance, dance and images – \u003cem\u003eExceptional Experiences \u003c\/em\u003esituates itself within a number of conversations on methodological and conceptual issues in anthropology and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is a very well-conceived, multiangled volume, one sure to generate lively discussion and experiment – and that maintains the distinctiveness of each authorial voice while also bringing them into generative conversation with each other.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Don Brenneis\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: \u003c\/strong\u003eEngaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePetra Rethmann and Helena Wulff \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Experiencing and Conceptualizing the Exceptional\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eTo Be Stunned: Uncanny Experiences and Uncertainty in ‘Ordinary’ Fieldwork\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDeborah Reed-Danahay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eLooking at the African Masks at Musée du Trocadéro – He Understood….\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eThomas Fillitz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Art and Anthropology in Graphic Form: Exceptional Experience andExtraordinary Collaboration in the Making of\u003cem\u003e ‘Light in Dark Times’\u003cbr\u003e \tAlisse Waterston and Charlotte Corden (images)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Exceptional Experiences in Academic Life\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMoshe Shokeid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Exceptionalism of Art as Disclosure of Deepest Truth: Stanley Spencer and the Look of Love\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNigel Rapport\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Literary Realms of the Exceptional\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eHaunted Reading\/Haunting Johnson\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePetra Rethmann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eSacred Muses: The Lake Goddess in Flora Nwapa’s Literary Worldmaking\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePaula Uimonen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eExperiential Literary Ethnography: How Creative Writing Techniques Can Capturethe Cultural Value of Live Arts-Based Experiences\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEllen Wiles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Exceptional Visual and Practice Experiences\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eLighting Praxis: Lighting Aesthetics and Creativity Narratives in Professional Cinematography\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCathy Greenhalgh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003e‘Hammered by the Image’: Exceptional Experiences of Art as Aesthetic Impact\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHelena Wulff                                                      \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eShaking up Worlds, Opening up Horizons: Contemporary Dance Experiences in Ramallah and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAna Laura Rodriguez Quinones \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Participant Growing-Places in and of the World: Rendering the Transformative Atmosphere of a Contemporary Opera in the Making\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaxime Le Calvé \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword: \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Sixth Sense\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eThomas Hylland Eriksen \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042812789079,"sku":"9781805390206","price":84.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781805390206.jpg?v=1750955749","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exceptional-experiences-engaging-with-jolting-events-in-art-and-fieldwork-9781805390206","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}