Love in the Time of Ethnography

Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research
Herausgeber: Carspecken, Lucinda

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Produktbeschreibung

Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love - variously defined - as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries in China, an elderly man with dementia, two women "coming home" to queer identity, a White researcher working with Black women in the US, the common ground between D¿gen's Zen teachings and Habermas's critical theory, an Albanian Sufi community in Michigan and interactions between humans and the natural world. It also includes theoretical writing on the place of love in social analysis, whether this involves relationships between researchers and participants or the nature of human connection itself. The authors argue that social research is an affective process as well as a cognitive one, and that fellow feeling is an essential component of making sense of the world. Along with more traditional scholarly forms, the contributors to this book use auto-ethnography, life stories, archival research and poetry, noting that style itself conveys information and emotion. Writing is always to some extent partisan. While anthropologists and other social researchers have explored this idea over the last few decades, they have more often explored it with an eye to critique than to the ideals underlying that critique. This is a collection of essays about what ethnographers are aiming for as well as the problems they address, and the authors discuss ethical principles like agape, hizmet and cariño as rationales for ethnography and rationales for social change.

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Produktdetails

• Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9781498543170
• ISBN-10: 1498543170
• Artikelnr.: 49013232

Autorenporträt

Lucinda Carspecken is lecturer in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology at Indiana University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Exploring the Concept of Love Chapter 1: Love in/for Nature:
Biophilia, Topophilia, Solostalgia by Leslie E. Sponsel Chapter 2: Ethical
Openness in Turkey: An Alevi Sunni Love Story by Lucinda Carspecken Chapter
3: The Indignation of Cariño: A Comparative Analysis of Movement Making
Among Unapologetic Youth by Felipe Vargas Part II: Selves and Others
Chapter 4: Love Lost and Found: A Sentimental History of American Medical
Missionaries in China, 1905-1951 by Ian Skoggard Chapter 5: The Face You
Wore by Michael Verde Chapter 6: We Are All Ships Coming Home to Ourselves;
An Autoethnographic Poem in Two Parts by Jana Clarke and Barbara Dennis
Chapter 7: The Honor of Loving Service: Caring for our Muslim Baba by
Frances Trix Part III: Love as Knowing Chapter 8: Love in the Field:
Reflections on the Role of Emotion in Qualitative Data Collection by
Rachelle Winkle-Wagner Chapter 9: Rethinking "Research": Insights from Zen
Buddhism on Self, Compassion, and Freedom by Peiwei Li Chapter 10:
Metanoia, Love and Ethnographic Poetry Written with Love from a Passing
Train by Adam Henze Chapter 11: Metanoia; Violence, Love and Forgiveness in
Ethnographic Writing by Phil Francis Carspecken