Search After Method

Reigniting a tradition of learning from experience, Search After Method is a plea for livelier forms of anthropology. The anthropologists in the collection recount their experiences of working in the field, framed within a range of anthropological debates. The book thus provides accounts of lived experiences from both extensive and contemporary fieldwork as well as offering solutions for how to evolve the art of anthropological research beyond what is currently imagined.

Download PDF of Table of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
Tim Ingold
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Lines of Flight
Julie Laplante, Willow Scobie and Ari Gandsman
Part I: Sensing
Chapter 1. Sonorous Sensations: Plant, People and Elemental Stirs in Healing
Julie Laplante
     Vignette 1: Plant Milieus: (In)Hospitalities
     Daniel Alberto Restrepo Hernández
     Vignette 2: Breath of Fresh Air
     Boyan Atzev
Chapter 2. Sensing 'Feeling' in Indonesia's Persatuan Gerak Badan (Body Movement Unification) School
Jaida Kim Samudra
Chapter 3. Drumming with Winds: Learning from Zar Practitioners in Qeshm Island, Iran
Nima Jangouk
     Vignette 3: Ethnography Through Anxiety
     Angeline Antonakos Boswell
Chapter 4. Fieldwork Aloft - Experiencing Weather and Air in Falconry
Sara Asu Schroer
Part II: Moving
Chapter 5. Travelling through Layers: Inuitness in Flight
Willow Scobie
     Vignette 4: Internet Techniques for an Untimely Anthropology
     Meg Stalcup
     Vignette 5: Hauling Water
     Carly Dokis
Chapter 6. Alex la Guma and the Smell of Freedom
Giovanni Spissu
Chapter 7. (Re)Turning Manifold-ish Along with Mongolian Reindeer Herd(er)s - Trial(s) by Vagary
Nicolas Rasiulis
Chapter 8. Enskilment into the Environment: The Yijin jing Worlds of Jin and Qi
Elisabeth Hsu and Chee Han Lim
Part III: Imagining
Chapter 9. Live to Tell - In and Out of View in the Interview
Ari Gandsman
     Vignette 6: Against Ethnographic Disappointment, or on the Importance of Listerning
     Larisa Kurtovic
     Vignette 7: The Discursive Archive
     Thushara Hewage
Chapter 10. On Failing to Learn to Shoot a Gun
Bradley Dunseith
Chapter 11. Wondering Winds: Alpine Fire Lookouts in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Kristen Anne Walsh
Chapter 12. Ethnography as Bewitchment: A Literary Study of Jeanne Favret-Saada's Deadly Words
Bernhard Leistle
Afterword: Meta-odos (Or the Inscription of Fieldwork)
David Jaclin
     Vignette 8: Inner Experience and Ethnographic Yoga
     Everett Kehew
Epilogue
Julie Laplante
Index