Readings

A full list of readings will be available by 1 June. Participants should read the following four texts in preparation for the course:

• Davies, J. (2011) Introduction. In: Emotions in the Field: the psychology and anthropology of fieldwork experience (eds. Davies, J., & Spencer, D.) Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 
• Hokkanen, S. (2017) Analyzing personal embodied experiences: Autoethnography, feelings, and fieldwork. Translation & Interpreting Vol 9:1  22-31. Available online.
• Berger, P. (2010) Assessing the relevance and effects of ‘key emotional episodes’ for the fieldwork process. In: Anthropological Fieldwork: a relational process (eds. Spencer D. & Davies J.). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. 
• Smith, Aja. (2022) At the Edge of the Sensible: Cultivating Doubt in Radically Engaged Anthropology and Spirituality. ETHOS, Vol. 49, Issue 3, pp. 308–328. Available online for students and employees at UiO.