Exceptional Experiences: Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

Contents\nList of Figures\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction. Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork\nPart I. Experiencing and Conceptualizing the Exceptional\nChapter 1. To Be Stunned: Uncanny Experiences and Uncertainty in ‘Ordinary’ Fieldwork\nChapter 2. Looking at the African Masks at Musée du Trocadéro – He Understood …\nChapter 3. Art and Anthropology in Graphic Form: Exceptional Experience and Extraordinary Collaboration in the Making of Light in Dark Times\nChapter 4. Exceptional Experiences in Academic Life\nChapter 5. The Exceptionalism of Art as Disclosure of Deepest Truth: Stanley Spencer and the Look of Love\nPart II. Literary Realms of the Exceptional\nChapter 6. Haunted Reading/Haunting Johnson\nChapter 7. Sacred Muses: The Lake Goddess in Flora Nwapa’s Literary Worldmaking\nChapter 8. Experiential Literary Ethnography: How Creative Writing Techniques Can Capture the Cultural Value of Live Arts-Based Experiences\nPart III. Exceptional Visual and Practice Experiences\nChapter 9. Lighting Praxis: Lighting Aesthetics and Creativity Narratives in Professional Cinematography\nChapter 10. ‘Hammered by the Image’: Exceptional Experiences of Art as Aesthetic Impact\nChapter 11. Shaking up Worlds, Opening up Horizons: Contemporary Dance Experiences in Ramallah and Beyond\nChapter 12. Participant Growing-Places in and of the World: Rendering the Transformative Atmosphere of a Contemporary Opera in the Making\nAfterword. The Sixth Sense\nIndex