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Social and behavioral sciences tend to naturalize impartial objectivity and ignore the affective dimensions of fieldwork and ethnography as epistemological insights. Taking seriously the affective aspects of anthropological research not only acknowledges researchers’ emotional responses to environments, places, situations, and people within “fieldwork,” but also entails an invitation to extend researchers’ affectivities to anthropological training methods, other forms and arenas of educational practices, as well as researchers’ everyday practices and professional interactions as academics.
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Low, K.E.Y., Abdullah, N. (2019). Unpacking Emotion Regimes in Teaching and Fieldwork: Introduction. In: Stodulka, T., Dinkelaker, S., Thajib, F. (eds) Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography. Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20831-8_24
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