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The contributors to this volume present us a provocative challenge. Reading between the lines of these bold essays, are we not asked to take a leap of faith into the nether world of ethnographic narratives through which ethnographers reconnect fully with human emotions? That leap takes us into the spaces between things, where we find the story and know it. When we embrace the story, we rediscover the field, reclaim our human emotions, and remember ourselves. That is a challenge worthy of our full attention.
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Stoller, P. (2019). Afterword: A Return to the Story. In: Stodulka, T., Dinkelaker, S., Thajib, F. (eds) Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography. Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20831-8_28
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