{"product_id":"affect-as-cultural-critique-daniel-white-9781487559793","title":"Affect as Cultural Critique: Methods for Ethnographic Uncovering","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAffect as Cultural Critique\u003c\/em\u003e assembles leading anthropologists, affect theorists, and artist-activist scholars to ask, what if the most constructive response to moments of ethnographic puzzlement was not the formulation of an answer but the cultivation of a feeling? What if understanding the powerful effects of discourses requires somatic rather than semiotic exercises? And where habits of academic professionalism prohibit experiencing possible worlds - what if anthropology as a discipline could leverage affect to differently connect and cultivate collaboration with others?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn line with growing movements to decolonize the academy, the essays in \u003cem\u003eAffect as Cultural Critique\u003c\/em\u003e feature ethnographic accounts of people actively describing, experimenting with, and otherwise exercising affect in ways that challenge the academy's inherited models for analyzing emotional life. Through an experimental collection of traditional ethnographic essays and artist-activist-generated critiques, this volume explores how everyday modes of feeling function as methods of knowing. By centering non-academic and non-Western affective practices as answers to traditional theoretical problems generated primarily by Western theorists, \u003cem\u003eAffect as Cultural Critique \u003c\/em\u003eseeks new trajectories for the discipline through a reciprocal practice of uncovering itself as a guiding professional aim, as methodological inspiration, and as a source of reflexive critique of the discipline's philosophical and theory-heavy analytics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel White,Emma Cook,Andrea de Antoni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487559798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487559793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Daniel White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47452470837503,"sku":"9781487559793","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_99cfdc31-698a-4fb7-9ea5-272309139239.jpg?v=1761928625","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/affect-as-cultural-critique-daniel-white-9781487559793","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}