Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-knowing and Ethnographic Limits

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Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword: Between village and bush
Introduction: Welcome to the corners of the peripheral
	From fringes to knowledge
	Suspension of clarity
	Ex-centricity
	Locating wisdom
	Invent your own periphery
	Notes
	References
Part I: Suspension of clarity
	Chapter 1: At the core, beyond reach: Sufism and words flying away in the field
		Rediscovering Sufism in the Volga and Urals
		Words flying away
		Parallels
		Epilogue: The comfort of mystery
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2: Shadows of meaning: Rethinking social dramas through absurdist theatre in a Georgian wedding
		Introduction
		Brotherhoods
		Roma at the wedding
		Emil and the tombstone
		Reasonable doubt
		Roma’s return as a social drama
		Shadows of meaning and shadows of doubt
		Note
		References
	Chapter 3: ‘This parenting lark’: Idiomatic ways of knowing and an epistemology of paying adequate attention
		Introduction
		Paying attention in parenting and fieldwork in late modernity
		The spaces and rhythms of young family life
		Unpacking the idioms of young family life: ‘this parenting lark’
		When ‘Makaronia me kima’ is much more than just a plate of spaghetti with mince meat
		Of ghosts and other sprites
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
Part II: Unlearning
	Chapter 4: Desiring the absence of knowledge: On knitting ethnography and navigating diaries
		Researching knitting
		Teaching the known
		Contrasting the known
		Ethnography along the way
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5: Acquiring mētis in ceramic production: Patterned changes and peripheral participation
		Eccentric knowledge
			Peripherality of mētis
			Crafty intelligence of mētis
			Mētis : The propensities of ten thousand things
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 6: Hammering on the edges: Thresholds of un-knowing in Santa Clara del Cobre, Mexico
		Lessons in skilled practice: An introduction
		Learning by un-knowing
		Peripheral wisdom as body politics
			Peripheries: Mistakes and shame
		The pitfalls of flow
		Metal modalities in the family forge
			Entangling flow
			Ecologies of perception
			The geography and (mole)ability of bodies
			Tools, peripheries and memory
		Shaping actions and words
		The dance of agency 32
		Against concluding
		Notes
		References
Part III: Absence of knowledge
	Chapter 7: Isomorphic articulations: Notes from collaborative film-work in an Afghan-Danish Film Collective
		How it all began: Methodology and the politics of inviting
		“Where’s the conflict?” Pitching the ‘gray’ at the Danish National Broadcasting Corporation
			Example of rundown
		Transmutation as soundtrack and the flow of images
		Outro
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: Here, there and nowhere in provincial outskirts and haunted houses 1
		Remoteness
		While seen through the corner of the eye
		Defocused
		Far-away perspectives
			The peripheral as ambiguous: Between imaginaries and displacement
			The peripheral as a focus: The Moebius band
			The peripheral as empirical evidence: Veiled ethnographies
			Epistemological problems: On the limits of anthropology
		Peripheral problems? Unfocusability, seductiveness and desire
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9: Fooled into fieldwork: Epistemic detours of an accidental anthropologist
		Epistemic de-centring
		Half-consistency
		Robbed into the field
		Missed chances
		Accidented anthropologist
		Conclusion: Remaining on the way to knowledge
		Notes
		References
	Conclusion: Catching a glimpse of peripheral wisdom
		Out of the corner of one’s eye
		Intimacy, the invisible and the expanding field
		Preserving the unknown
		Knowledge by subtraction
		Note
		References
	Afterthought: Notes on the peripheral, in a plague year
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