Anthropological Fieldwork
The contributors to this volume argue that participant observation is an embodied process mediated by emotions. For fieldwork to attain its fullest potential, emotional reflexivity is essential. They propose new ways of practising it to enhance anthropological knowledge.
This book explores how digital technologies contribute to the expression, construction, and enactment of identities. Drawing from various disciplines, it examines the nearly limitless opportunities for staging and transforming the self in our modern world.
Dreaming in Auschwitz
This unique book explores the Holocaust through the prism of dreams. Based on descriptions written by former Auschwitz inmates, it reveals truths that remained unconscious, incomprehensible, and unspeakable, opening a new way of thinking and writing about the Holocaust.
Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations
This collection provides a theoretical and methodological platform for studying social encounters in archaeology. A social encounter focuses on the confusion, tension, and social change that emerge when people and things interact, with often unpredictable effects.
ZONA NORTE
What began as an ethnographic study of sex workers on the U.S./Mexican border turned inward. The author studies himself within the culture, examining his feelings and reactions as he observes dancers and hookers on both sides of the border.