Anthropologists often have fieldwork experiences that are not explicitly analysed in their writings, though they nevertheless contribute to and shape their ethnographic understandings, and can resonate throughout their work for many years. The task of this volume is precisely to uncover these layers of anthropological knowledge-making. Contributors take on the challenge of reconstructing the ways in which they originally entered the worlds of research subjects their anthropological Others by focusing on pre-textual and deeply phenomenological processes of perceiving, noting, listening and sensing. Drawing on a wide range of research experiences with the Dogon in Mali, immigrant football players in Spain, the Inuit of the Far North, Filipino transnational families, miners in Poland and students in Scotland this book goes beyond an exploration of the development of increased ethnographic sensitivity towards words or actions. It also commences the foundational project of developing a new language for building anthropological works, one stemming from recurring acts of participation, and rooted primarily in the pre-textual worlds of the tacit, often non-visible, and intense experiences that exceed the limitations of conventional textual accounts.
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These edifying essays lay the groundwork for an anthropology that not only overcomes old antinomies of body-mind, text-context, representation-reality, but encourages us to see how participatory method, social attentiveness, and new forms of ethnographic writing can enhance our understanding of the affective, intersubjective, and conceptual complexities of life as lived. Michael Jackson,Distinguished Professor of World Religions, Harvard University.
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Introduction Pre-textual ethnography and the challenge of
phenomenological knowledge-making Tomasz Rakowski and Helena Patzer; Part I
Setting the perspective;
Chapter 1 Feet on the ground The role of the body in
pre-textual ethnography Anne Line Dalsgard;
Chapter 2 The phenomenological
programme and anthropological research A mutual mirroring Gheorghita Geana;
Chapter 3 Beyond the textual bias, towards pre-textual experience Therapeutic
guidelines Grzegorz Godlewski; Part II Revealing field-knowledge;
Chapter 4
A pre-textual path Revealing the field in a closed-down mining centre in
south-west Poland Tomasz Rakowski;
Chapter 5 A praxeology and phenomenology
of Dogon landscape Fieldwork practice, kinesthetic experience and embodied
knowledge Laurence Douny;
Chapter 6 Muscular consciousness Knowledge-making
in an Arctic environment Kirsten Hastrup;
Chapter 7 Sport as common ground in
fieldwork On apprenticeship, habitus and habituation Juliane Muller;
Chapter
8 Meeting the pre-textual Intersubjective knowledge of long-distance care in
the Philippines Helena Patzer
Chapter 9 The epoché, mindfulness and the body
Dynamics of a phenomenological experience in the field Sonja Lenk;
Chapter 10
To journey near and far The dis-illusion of perception, knowledge and the
body Andrew Irving; Epilogue The organ of human perception and a
supra-cultural knowledge of human being Nigel Rapport.
Tomasz Rakowski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. He is also a medical doctor, a specialist in accident and emergency medicine. His research interests include: anthropology and social art, phenomenology, pre-textual ethnography, studies on poverty and social trauma, bottom-up development in Poland and Mongolia.Recently he published Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness: An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland (2016).
Helena Patzer is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, CzechAcademy of Sciences, in Prague. Her research interests include the anthropologyof migration and mobility, the critical anthropology of development, and heritage and urban studies. She has done fieldwork in the Philippines and inFilipino migrant communities in the United States and Denmark, focusing on transnational family life and diaspora involvement in development. She is thedirector of an ethnographic film, Money Tree (2013).
