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I
mmersing oneself in another culture is always going to
be a strange experience, and most anthropologists will be
expecting to encounter dierent ways of thinking about
the world when they rst embark on their eldwork. What
they do not necessarily expect, however, is to start experiencing the
world around them dierently; to begin seeing and feeling things
that, from the perspective of western science, simply cannot be
possible. We might class such experiences, therefore, as anomalous
because they do not sit comfortably with our rational scientic view
of the world, but that is not to say such experiences are considered
anomalous by the ethnographers host culture. Indeed while
such experiences may not be particularly common or widespread
amongst the population of the host culture, they may yet have a
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Ethnographic Fieldwork and Anomalous Experience