ABSTRACT
The significance of exploring the field in terms of interpersonal understandings also emerges strongly as a focus in recent writing about anthropological fieldwork and knowledge creation. This chapter examines the framework of kinship and relatedness to explore how as anthropologists we become intimately connected to fields and the significant role such connections play in analytic preoccupations. It argues elsewhere a focus on emotion also leads us into a deeper understanding of the dynamics of kinship. A focus on the emotions of the anthropologist also involves us taking a closer look at the role of bodily practices in the field. It is helpful here to note a useful distinction made by Leavitt between emotional practices and emotional feelings which takes into account the potentially performative aspect of the former. The experience of fieldwork as a practical and imaginative journey raises questions about the anthropologist who does fieldwork 'at home'.
