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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Antihero Care: On Fieldwork and Anthropology
Contributor:
Yates‐Doerr, Emily
Published:
Wiley, 2020
Published in:
Anthropology and Humanism, 45 (2020) 2, Seite 233-244
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/anhu.12300
ISSN:
1559-9167;
1548-1409
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
Summary“Antihero care” offers an approach to anthropology that emphasizes the importance of fallibility over mastery and social connections over individually acquired knowledge. I draw together Le Guin’sCarrier Bag Theory of Fictionand Mol, Pols, and Moser’sCare in Practiceto analyze the challenge of carrying out fieldwork with my children in highland Guatemala. I describe how an everyday accident led me to refuse the “killer story” of the hero and to instead embrace a script that emphasized dependency and incompletion. In my case, antihero care has changed the way I engage with holism and biomedicine in my research and writing. More broadly, reframing limitations on knowledge as a strength—not a drawback—of the discipline usefully unsettles the boundaries between fieldwork and care work.