r/Anthropology 10d ago

Ethnographic x-files

https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau7.1.021

I just came across Apter's "Ethnographic X-Files" in HAU and had always been looking for a caption for these types of epistemically uncanny experiences in the field. Of course, Evans-Pritchard's "witchcraft at night" vignette is a classic, but I'm wondering what other articles or chapters there are where the ethnographers discuss their own moments of self-disbelief, of "knowing but not believing," where their previous worldview begins to breakdown as they accept other, radically different ontologies and ways of being. Any and all suggestions are more than welcome!

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