Being There: On the Imaginative Aspects of Understanding Others and Being Understood

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Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology (2011, background): “…religious experience (Csordas 1994b, Jackson 2009a, Seeman 2009, Stoller 2008); empathy (Briggs 2008, Desjarlais 1992, Frank 2000, Gieser 2008, Hollan 2008, Hollan & Throop 2008, Kirmayer 2008, Throop 2010b); and the ethnographic encounter itself (Benson & O’Neill 2007, Frykman & Gilje 2003,…”
The Dark Side of Empathy: Mimesis, Deception, and the Magic of Alterity (2015, background): “The idea of empathy as the methodological basis for participantobservation was severely challenged by, for instance, Clifford Geertz, who argued forcefully that anthropological claims to empathy were really a poorly disguised form of Western projection (1983: 126; see Hollan 2008: 477).”
Emerging Issues in the Cross-Cultural Study of Empathy (2012, background): “The implication that one will use or “do” something with one’s understanding—or misunderstanding (Hollan, 2008)—of another may be one of the primary reasons why so many people in the world seem to be as wary of first-person perspective taking as they are embracing of it (Hollan & Throop, 2008;…”
The Interpersonal Functions of Empathy: A Relational Perspective (2017, background): “Whether an individual is successfully able to empathize with another partially depends on the openness or resistance of the person being empathized with (i.e., the emoter; Greenson, 1960; Halpern, 2001; Hollan, 2008, 2012; Ickes, Marangoni, & Garcia, 1997).”