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.

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

Petra Rethmann and Helena Wulff



Part I: Experiencing and Conceptualizing the Exceptional



Chapter 1. To Be Stunned: Uncanny Experiences and Uncertainty in ‘Ordinary’ Fieldwork

Deborah Reed-Danahay



Chapter 2. Looking at the African Masks at Musée du Trocadéro – He Understood….

Thomas Fillitz



Chapter 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 Life

Moshe Shokeid



Chapter 5. The Exceptionalism of Art as Disclosure of Deepest Truth: Stanley Spencer and the Look of Love

Nigel Rapport



Part II: Literary Realms of the Exceptional



Chapter 6. Haunted Reading/Haunting Johnson

Petra Rethmann



Chapter 7. Sacred Muses: The Lake Goddess in Flora Nwapa’s Literary Worldmaking

Paula Uimonen



Chapter 8. Experiential Literary Ethnography: How Creative Writing Techniques Can Capturethe Cultural Value of Live Arts-Based Experiences

Ellen Wiles



Part III: Exceptional Visual and Practice Experiences



Chapter 9. Lighting Praxis: Lighting Aesthetics and Creativity Narratives in Professional Cinematography

Cathy Greenhalgh



Chapter 10. ‘Hammered by the Image’: Exceptional Experiences of Art as Aesthetic Impact

Helena Wulff                                                     



Chapter 11. Shaking up Worlds, Opening up Horizons: Contemporary Dance Experiences in Ramallah and Beyond

Ana Laura Rodriguez Quinones



Chapter 12. Participant Growing-Places in and of the World: Rendering the Transformative Atmosphere of a Contemporary Opera in the Making

Maxime Le Calvé



Afterword: The Sixth Sense

Thomas Hylland Eriksen