Overview

Foreword : between village and bush / Paul Stoller -- Introduction : welcome to the corners of the periphery / Francisco Martínez, Martin D. Frederiksen and Lili Di Puppo -- At the core, beyond reach : Sufism and words flying away in the field / Lili Di Puppo -- Shadows of meaning : rethinking social dramas through absurdist theatre in a Georgian wedding / Martin Demant Frederiksen -- 'This parenting lark' : idiomatic ways of knowing and an epistemology of paying adequate attention / Melissa Nolas and Christos Varvantakis -- Desiring the absence of knowledge : on knitting ethnography and navigating diaries / Lydia Arantes -- Acquiring Metis in ceramic production : patterned changes and peripheral participation / Ewa Klekot -- Hammering on the edges : learning by un-knowing in a coppersmith of Santa Clara del Cobre, Mexico / Michele Feder-Nadoff -- Fooled into fieldwork : peripheral research routes of an accidental anthropologist / Francisco Martínez -- Here, there and nowhere in provincial otskirts and haunted houses / Kirsten Marie Raahauge -- Isomorphic articulations : notes from collaborative film-work in an Afghan-Danish film collective / Karen Waltorp and ARTlife Film Collective -- Catching a glimpse of peripheral wisdom / Lili Di Puppo, Martin D. Frederiksen and Francisco Martínez -- Afterthought : notes on the peripheral, in a plague year / Robert Desjarlais.