10. Ascetic Practice and Participant Observation, or, the Gift of Doubt in Field Experience

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction Emotions in the Field 1
6. Psychology of Field Experience
7. 1. From Anxiety to Method in Anthropological Fieldwork 35
8. 2. “At the Heart of the Discipline” 55
9. 3. Disorientation, Dissonance, and Altered Perception in the Field 79
10. 4. Using Emotion as a Form of Knowledge in a Psychiatric Fieldwork Setting 98
11. II. Political Emotions in the Field
12. 5. Hating Israel in the Field 129
13. 6. Tian’anmen in Yunnan 155
14. 7. Emotional Engagements 171
15. III. Non-cognitive Field Experiences
16. 8. Emotional Topographies 191
17. 9. What Counts as Data? 212
18. 10. Ascetic Practice and Participant Observation, or, the Gift of Doubt in Field Experience 239
19. Index 267