Between One and One Another

Jackson, Michael

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“…It is not a matter of loving those who have wronged you, nor is it about understanding them. It is, rather, a kind of letting go whereby one reclaims one's own life and releases oneself from thoughts of hatred or revenge (Jackson :213–14). Forgiveness in other words entails detachment from painful feelings.…”

Section: Cultural Defense Mechanisms Of the New Flower Churchmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Filial Piety to Forgiveness: Managing Ambivalent Feelings in a Beijing House‐Church

Bregnbæk¹

2016

Ethos

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This article is based on fieldwork in a Chinese Protestant house‐church in Beijing—more specifically, it focuses on a form of group therapy, which took place in the vicinity of the church. It combines two phenomena usually studied separately, namely the popularity of Chinese underground churches and China's so‐called “psycho‐boom.” Drawing on attachment theory, I focus on the psychic conflicts that draw certain people, in this case a young woman, Lin, to this kind of therapeutic/ritual context. Filial piety, the moral value that children should respect and honor their parents, who have sacrificed so much for them, remains a strong social norm in Chinese society. I argue that forbidden feelings such as anger directed at parents found expression in this Chinese house‐church. The ritual and therapeutic context can be understood as a cultural defense mechanism, which celebrates an inversion of dominant societal norms.

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Section: Cultural Defense Mechanisms Of the New Flower Churchmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Filial Piety to Forgiveness: Managing Ambivalent Feelings in a Beijing House‐Church

Bregnbæk¹

2016

Ethos

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“…It became a theorization of conventions, the commonsensical, and the intimate practices of anthropology and anthropologists that too often go unexamined. It became a story about the story's after effects (Jackson 2013).…”

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“…We turn a blind eye, obeying the unspoken conventions of anthropology, never saying what it is we all know, that we unwittingly collude with late-capitalist, neoliberal policies that oppress, marginalize, exclude, and erase even as we daringly attempt to "bring down the man." We must consider how our own discipline and conventions, our own genres of writing and reflecting, limit our ability to know the world and limit our ability to convey that knowledge (Jackson 2012). A future anthropology might include a more dialogical, affective ethnography where the autobiographical self and professional anthropologist merge to bravely and honestly confront, not retreat from, the messiness of the world and our entanglements within in (Castañeda 2005;Denzin 2001), or, stealing a phrase from Ken Little, "engage in unruly activities of composition!"…”

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Truth, Shame, Complicity, and Flirtation: An Unconventional, Ethnographic (Non)fiction

Elliott

2014

Anthropology and Humanism

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This unconventional, nonfiction paper begins by exploring the entanglements of subjects and researchers in the inner city, a space marked by economic and political marginalization and disparities in health and well-being. Blurring genres, the imaginative ethnographic narrative begins with the story of the lives of two men-an impoverished, homeless, Aboriginal man and a privileged, white clinical epidemiologist-and then drifts to consider the politics of sharing such stories for the ethnographer. Reflecting on the telling of the story at an academic conference, it illuminates tensions, contradictions, and the messiness of anthropology and the every-

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“…Anthropologists endeavour to learn from others by sharing experiences and relationships (Crapanzano 2014;Ingold 2013: 2). By continually oscillating between states of being attuned to interlocutors or themselves, they test and rethink their expectations, thus transforming knowledge of the world and the lives of those with whom it is shared (Jackson 2012). Just as I learnt in this way during my research,…”

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Relations of Trust, Questions about Expectations: Reflections on a Photography Project with Young South Africans

Pattenden¹

2015

Anthropology in Action

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This article stems from my doctoral research, which considers moral contestation relating to education in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Overall, I outline a case for working with young people: addressing asymmetrical institutional and generational relations of power in order to enrich the knowledge generated by research. My focus is a project entitled My Future, which involved approximately forty learners drawing diagrams and using disposable cameras to produce representations of their moral judgements. Notable distinctions between data gathered during two stages of fieldwork, of differing durations, are analysed with reference to my relations with interlocutors and related institutionalised and public discourses of morality. Using the concept of trust, which is established during exchanges of mutually beneficial sociality, I argue that how we understand others depends upon what they expect from us and what we expect of them.

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Between One and One Another

Cited by 48 publications

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From Filial Piety to Forgiveness: Managing Ambivalent Feelings in a Beijing House‐Church

From Filial Piety to Forgiveness: Managing Ambivalent Feelings in a Beijing House‐Church

Truth, Shame, Complicity, and Flirtation: An Unconventional, Ethnographic (Non)fiction

Relations of Trust, Questions about Expectations: Reflections on a Photography Project with Young South Africans

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