Afterword

As a dancer, I am trained to actively encounter the sensorial realm. Without a doubt, the sensorial realm flooded over me during fieldwork. Reading multiple accounts and memoirs from anthropologists early on as I began the sensorial intensity, “the lived experience of fieldwork” (Ventakachalam 2015, 19) seemed a norm rather than the exception. Several accounts, such as those of Stoller and Olkes (1987) and van de Port (2011), elevated their own sensorial experiences to the status of active dialogical partners with their research data. They demonstrated how sensational moments of fieldwork themselves participate in the knowledge being researched. This book