Exceptional Experiences

Petra Rethmann is Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University, Ontario and Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. She is the author or editor of three books and has held guest professorships at the University of St. Petersburg, University of Cape Town, and Aleksanteri Institute/Helsinki.

“This is a very well-conceived, multiangled volume, one sure to generate lively discussion and experiment – and that maintains the distinctiveness of each authorial voice while also bringing them into generative conversation with each other.” • Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and FieldworkPetra Rethmann and Helena Wulff Part I: Experiencing and Conceptualizing the ExceptionalChapter 1. To Be Stunned: Uncanny Experiences and Uncertainty in ‘Ordinary’ FieldworkDeborah Reed-DanahayChapter 2. Looking at the African Masks at Musée du Trocadéro – He Understood….Thomas FillitzChapter 3. Art and Anthropology in Graphic Form: Exceptional Experience andExtraordinary Collaboration in the Making of ‘Light in Dark Times’Alisse Waterston and Charlotte Corden (images)Chapter 4. Exceptional Experiences in Academic LifeMoshe ShokeidChapter 5. The Exceptionalism of Art as Disclosure of Deepest Truth: Stanley Spencer and the Look of LoveNigel RapportPart II: Literary Realms of the ExceptionalChapter 6. Haunted Reading/Haunting JohnsonPetra RethmannChapter 7. Sacred Muses: The Lake Goddess in Flora Nwapa’s Literary WorldmakingPaula UimonenChapter 8. Experiential Literary Ethnography: How Creative Writing Techniques Can Capturethe Cultural Value of Live Arts-Based ExperiencesEllen WilesPart III: Exceptional Visual and Practice ExperiencesChapter 9. Lighting Praxis: Lighting Aesthetics and Creativity Narratives in Professional CinematographyCathy GreenhalghChapter 10. ‘Hammered by the Image’: Exceptional Experiences of Art as Aesthetic ImpactHelena Wulff                                                      Chapter 11. Shaking up Worlds, Opening up Horizons: Contemporary Dance Experiences in Ramallah and BeyondAna Laura Rodriguez Quinones Chapter 12. Participant Growing-Places in and of the World: Rendering the Transformative Atmosphere of a Contemporary Opera in the MakingMaxime Le Calvé Afterword: The Sixth SenseThomas Hylland Eriksen