Hi Martin,
the American Sociologist Arlie Russel Hochschild has provided wonderful work, empirical studies in various fields (service sector / hospitality industry, surrogate mothers in India, etc. ) and theoretical frameworks for studying empathy. She explores the borders to commodification, the colonization of feeling and the economies of gratitude through qualitative ethnographic approaches. You will find her website here: http://sociology.berkeley.edu/professor-emeritus/arlie-r-hochschild. We have dedicated a book to her outstanding intellectual work in this field: Pathways to Empathy http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo16900700.html
Best wishes from Hamburg
Gertraud
Prof. Dr. Gertraud Koch
Universität Hamburg
Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology
https://www.kultur.uni-hamburg.de/vk/personen/koch.html
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Hello everyone!
I humbly ask for your recommendations on the subjects of anthropology and empathy. I am having a hard time finding work that isn't somehow directly related to health and therapy, or empathy and emotion as methodological concern, but which explores more how people employ empathic capacities in their everyday lives. My own project deals with young Tanzanian's attempts to engage with foreigners in and around the tourism industry. I would also be very excited if anyone had recommendations for how anthropologists have written about these subjects ethnographically.
Sincerely,
Martin Loeng
Ph.D. fellow
Department of Social Anthropology
NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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