How Did It Feel for You? Emotion, Narrative, and the Limits of Ethnography

被引：56

作者：

Beatty, Andrew ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Brunel Univ, Sch Social Sci, Dept Anthropol, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England

来源：

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST | 2010年 / 112卷 / 03期

关键词：

emotion; narrative; ethnographic writing; fieldwork; literature; VIOLENCE; LESSONS; SELF;

D O I：

10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01250.x

中图分类号：

Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

030303 ;

摘要：

In this article, I present the case for a narrative approach to emotion, identifying conceptual and presentational weaknesses in standard ethnographic approaches. First-person and confessional accounts, increasingly offered as a corrective to the distancing and typifying effects of cultural analysis, are shown to be unreliable; shared experience turns out to be an illusion. Instead, I suggest we look to literary examples for lessons in how to capture the full significance of emotion in action. Here, however, we reach the limits of ethnography.

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页码：430 / 443

页数：14