Contents

List of Figures

Foreword
Tim Ingold

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Lines of Flight
Julie Laplante, Willow Scobie and Ari Gandsman

Part I: Sensing

Chapter 1. Sonorous Sensations: Plant, People and Elemental Stirs in Healing
Julie Laplante
     Vignette 1: Plant Milieus: (In)Hospitalities
     Daniel Alberto Restrepo Hernández
     Vignette 2: Breath of Fresh Air
     Boyan Atzev

Chapter 2. Sensing ‘Feeling’ in Indonesia’s Persatuan Gerak Badan (Body Movement Unification) School
Jaida Kim Samudra

Chapter 3. Drumming with Winds: Learning from Zar Practitioners in Qeshm Island, Iran
Nima Jangouk
     Vignette 3: Ethnography Through Anxiety
     Angeline Antonakos Boswell

Chapter 4. Fieldwork Aloft - Experiencing Weather and Air in Falconry
Sara Asu Schroer

Part II: Moving

Chapter 5. Travelling through Layers: Inuitness in Flight
Willow Scobie
     Vignette 4: Internet Techniques for an Untimely Anthropology
     Meg Stalcup
     Vignette 5: Hauling Water
     Carly Dokis

Chapter 6. Alex la Guma and the Smell of Freedom
Giovanni Spissu

Chapter 7. (Re)Turning Manifold-ish Along with Mongolian Reindeer Herd(er)s – Trial(s) by Vagary
Nicolas Rasiulis

Chapter 8. Enskilment into the Environment: The Yijin jing Worlds of Jin and Qi
Elisabeth Hsu and Chee Han Lim

Part III: Imagining

Chapter 9. Live to Tell – In and Out of View in the Interview
Ari Gandsman
     Vignette 6: Against Ethnographic Disappointment, or on the Importance of Listerning
     Larisa Kurtović
     Vignette 7: The Discursive Archive
     Thushara Hewage

Chapter 10. On Failing to Learn to Shoot a Gun
Bradley Dunseith

Chapter 11. Wondering Winds: Alpine Fire Lookouts in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Kristen Anne Walsh

Chapter 12. Ethnography as Bewitchment: A Literary Study of Jeanne Favret-Saada’s Deadly Words
Bernhard Leistle

Afterword: Meta-odos (Or the Inscription of Fieldwork)
David Jaclin
     Vignette 8: Inner Experience and Ethnographic Yoga
     Everett Kehew

Epilogue
Julie Laplante

Index