Gifts of grief
Performative Ethnography and the Revelatory Potential of Emotion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2403473 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Henry (0000-0002-1762-5715, James Cook University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 528-539 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468794112442767 |
| OpenAlex | W2033875117 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 34 |
After participation in the funeral of a beloved friend in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, I was drawn to contemplate the revelatory potential of emotions such as grief. With reference to literature on the anthropology of emotions and the concept of empathy, I consider the relationship between ethnographic knowledge and deep emotional responses in the context of fieldwork. I argue that moments of intense emotional engagement, which many researchers record as having experienced during fieldwork, have the potential to lead to rich ethnographic understanding, particularly when such moments productively draw us into participatory cultural performances that help mediate the conceptual divide between meaning and feeling, observer and observed
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Autoethnography · Citizen journalism · Empathy · Ethnography · Feeling · Grief · Performative utterance · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
A Critical Ethnography of Political Activism
Rehearsing Inclusive Participation Through Fishery Stakeholder Workshops in the Philippines
The Gift
An Extraordinary Wedding
Visceral imprints on our minds, bodies and spirits
Producing emotionally sensed knowledge? Reflexivity and emotions in researching responses to death
Grief as method
Understanding emotions as situated, embodied, and fissured
Culture and grief
Grieving geographies, mourning waters
Brideprice and Prejudice
Interpreting ‘grief’ in Senegal
Embodying 'accidental ethnography
Lived Observations
Emotional Reflexivity and the Guiding Principle of Objectivity in an Inter-Disciplinary, Multi-Method, Longitudinal Research Project
In praise of awkwardness in the field
Reflections on the affective contributions to research success in two participatory projects in Colombia
The emotional labour of gaining and maintaining access to the field
Five stories of accidental ethnography
Emotional overlap and the analytic potential of emotions in anthropology
The Sorrow of Parting
The ethics and obligations of long-term ethnographic relationships
Relations and Products
Everybody Needs Their Story to Be Heard
Anthropologists in the field.
Writing Culture
Reinventing anthropology.
Culture & truth
Auto/Ethnography
The Shadow Side of Fieldwork
The Anthropology of the Beginnings and Ends of Life
The Anthropology of Emotions
Tuhami
The Self in Self Decoration
Anthropology as Cultural Critique
Bodies that matter
Upheavals of Thought
Introduction
Confession, Anger and Cross-Cultural Articulation in Papua New Guinea
Bodies That Matter
On Not Knowing Other Minds
Reading the Skin
Somatic Modes of Attention
Toward an Experience-Near Anthropology
Then What Have I to do with Thee
Meaning and Feeling in the Anthropology of Emotions
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
Researching sensitive topics
Husserl, intersubjectivity and anthropology
Articulating Experience
Latitudes of loss
Being There
On the Problem of Empathy
Whatever Happened to Empathy
Emotions in the Field
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |