Wissensgenerierung als emotionale Praktik: Ethnographisches Schreiben und emotionalisiertes Lesen in Joseph Stöckleins S. J. Neuem Welt-Bott

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Renate Dürr and Ulrike Strasser, "Wissensgenerierung als emotionale Praktik: Ethnographisches Schreiben und emotionalisiertes Lesen in Joseph Stöckleins S. J. Neuem Welt-Bott", in: Historische Anthropologie 28, 3 (2020), pp. 354–378.

Building on Monique Scheer’s concept of emotions as “a practical engagement with the world”, our article analyses early modern ethnographical reporting. We focus on texts from the Jesuit collection Der Neue Welt-Bott (1726–1761), notably by Marianas missionary Joseph Bonani (1685–1752), to elucidate ethnographic activities as emotional practices and to show how reading ethnographies as ego-documents makes visible indigenous contributions to European ethnography. We further discuss Jesuit narratives of sea voyages as rites de passage into new forms of empirical knowledge and suggest that collecting, translating, redacting, and publishing materials in Europe also constituted emotional practices.