Home : ethnographic encounters /
edited by Johannes Lenhard and Farhan Samanani.
- c2020.
- xii, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
- Encounters : experience and anthropological knowledge .
- Encounters--experience and anthropological knowledge .
Includes bibliographical references (p.[203]-213) and index.
Introduction. Ethongraphy dwelling and home-making / Johannes Lenhard and Farhan Samanani -- 1. Studying gay sex in Beirut: the lascivious suture of home/field / Mathew Gagné -- 2. Curtains, cars, and privacy: experiences of dwelling and home-making in Azerbaijan / Sascha Roth -- 3. A lonely home: balancing intimacy and estrangement in the field / Nikita Simpson -- 4. Ethnography of police 'domestic abuse' interventions: ethico-methodological reflections / Faten Khazaei -- 5. Digging holes, posting signs, loading guns: constructing home near the Grand Canyon / Susannah Crockford -- 6. Becoming a planner: participation and anticipation in producing home / Marten Fuller -- 7. Making a home with homeless people / Johannes Lenhard -- 8. A threshold space: connecting a home in the city with tthe city / Max Ott -- 9. Making a home on a volcano / Adam Bobbette -- 10. After exiction: navigating ambiguity in the ethnographic field / Farhan Samanani -- 11. Acts of 'homing' in the Easter Desert - how Syrian refugees make temporary homes in a village outside Zaatari Camp, Jordan / Ann-Christin Wagner -- 12. A house divided: movement and race in urban ethnograph / Melissa K. Wrapp
"How are notions of 'home' made and negotiated by ethnographers? And how does the researcher relate to forms of home encountered during fieldwork? Rather than searching for an abstract, philosophical understanding of home, this collection asks how home gains its meaning and significance through ongoing efforts to create, sustain or remake a sense of home. The volume explores how researchers and informants alike are always involved in the process of making and unmaking home, and challenges readers to reimagine ethnographic practice in terms of active, morally complex process of home-making. Contributions reach across the globe and across social contexts, and the book includes chapters on council housing and middle-class apartment buildings, homelessness and migration, problems with accessing the field as well as limiting it, physical as well as sentimental notions of home, and objects as well as inter-human social relations. Home draws attention to processes of sociality that normally remain analytically invisible, and contributes to a growing and rich field of study on the anthropology of home."--Back cover