Love in the Time of Ethnography : Essays on Connection As a Focus and Basis for Research.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society Series .
- Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I: Exploring the Concept of Love -- 1 Love in/of Nature -- 2 Ethical Openness in Turkey -- 3 The Indignation of Cariņo -- II: Selves and Others -- 4 Love Lost and Found -- 5 The Face You Wore -- 6 We Are All Ships Coming Home to Ourselves -- 7 The Honor of Loving Service -- III: Love as a Way of Knowing -- 8 Love in the Field -- 9 Rethinking "Research" -- 10 Love, Forgiveness, and Ethnographic Poetry -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Contributors.
In Love in the Time of Ethnography, the contributorsargue that research is an affective process as well as a cognitive one. The authors explore love--variously defined--as an important facet of human experience, as a way of knowing, and as an ethical rationale for ethnography.