Extraordinary Anthropology : Transformations in the Field

Preface ix Johannes Fabian Acknowledgments xiii Map of communities discussed xviii Embodied Knowledge: Steps toward a Radical Anthropology of Cross-cultural Encounters 1 Jean-Guy A. Goulet and Bruce Granville Miller PART ONE: Beyond Our Known Worlds 15 1. On Puzzling Wavelengths 17 Peter M. Gardner 2. On Presence 36 Petra Rethmann 3. Reveal or Conceal? 53 Barbara Wilkes PART TWO: Entanglements and Faithfulness to Experience 85 4. Recursive Epistemologies and an Ethics of Attention 88 Deborah Bird Rose 5. Ethnographic Rendez-vous: Field Accounts of Unexpected Vulnerabilities and Constructed Differences 103 Anahi Viladrich 6. When the Extraordinary Hits Home: Experiencing Spiritualism 124 Deirdre Meintel 7. Prophecy, Sorcery, and Reincarnation: Inuit Spirituality in the Age of Skepticism 158 Edmund Searles PART THREE: Epistemological and Ethical Thresholds 183 8. The Politics of Ecstatic Research 186 Bruce Granville Miller 9. Moving Beyond Culturally Bound Ethical Guidelines 208 Jean-Guy A. Goulet 10. Experiences of Power among the Sekani of Northern British Columbia: Sharing Meaning through Time and Space 237 Guy Lanoue PART FOUR: Keeping Violence and Conflict in View 255 11. Don Patricio's Dream: Shamanism and the Torments of Secrecy in Fieldwork among the Mazatecs 258 Edward Abse 12. Clothing the Body in Otherness 283 Janferie Stone 13. Dog Days: Participation as Transformation 310 Duncan Earle PART FIVE: Apprenticeship and Research Practices 321 14. A Pathway to Knowledge: Embodiment, Dreaming, and Experience as a Basis for Understanding the Other 323 Denise Nuttall 15. Field of Dreams; Fields of Reality: Growing with and in Anthropology 352 Jeanne Simonelli, Erin McCulley, and Rachel Simonelli 16. Dancing Lessons from God: To Be the Good Ethnographer or the Good Bad Ethnographer 380 Millie Creighton References 419 List of Contributors 447 Index 453