Introduction : engaging with jolting events in art and fieldwork / Petra Rethmann and Helena Wulff -- To be stunned : uncanny experiences and uncertainty in 'ordinary' fieldwork / Deborah Reed-Danahay -- Looking at the african masks at Musée du Trocadéro -- he understood ... / Thomas Fillitz -- Art and anthropology in graphic form : exceptional experience and extraordinary collaboration in the making of 'light in dark times' / Alisse Waterston and Charlotte Corden -- Exceptional experiences in academic life / Moshe Shokeid -- The exceptionalism of art as disclosure of deepest truth : Stanley Spencer and the look of love / Nigel Rapport -- Haunted reading/haunting Johnson / Petra Rethmann -- Sacred Muses : the lake goddess in Flora Nwapa's literary worldmaking / Paula Uimonen -- Experiential literary ethnography : how creative writing techniques can capture the cultural value of live arts-based experiences / Ellen Wiles -- Lighting praxis : lighting aesthetics and creativity narratives in professional cinematography / Cathy Greenhalgh -- 'Hammered by the image' : exceptional experiences of art as aesthetic impact / Helena Wulff -- Shaking up worlds, opening up horizons : contemporary dance experiences in Ramallah and beyond / Ana Laura Rodriguez Quinones -- Participant growing-places in and of the world : rendering the transformative atmosphere of a contemporary opera in the making / Maxime Le Calve -- Afterword : the sixth sense / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
Summary:
"Looking 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 and 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 - Exceptional Experiences situates itself within a number of conversations on methodological and conceptual issues in anthropology and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
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