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Book Review: Christina Toren and João De Pina Cabral (eds) The Challenge of Epistemology: Anthropological Perspectives

individual accounts illustrate that relocation results in losses that cause emotional stress and ambivalence. However, military communities overseas do not have the opportunity to form meaningful interpersonal relationships, which are vital for emotional support due to frequent relocations. Furthermore, by being incorporated into the military, wives unwittingly identify with military stoicism and try to deny rather than verbalise their emotional distress. These serve to impede the recovery process. In the context that wives are increasingly resistant to military mobility due to negative experiences, the author spells out policy recommendations in the concluding chapter. For those interested in research methods, Chapter 5 provides an illuminating account of a reflexive psychoanalytical research methodology. Drawing upon psychoanalytical theories and empirical examples, the author shows that unconscious communications between the researcher and the researched are both valuable and problematic for data interpretation. While informants can unconsciously evoke similar feelings in the researcher and thus enhance mutual understanding, the two parties may also collude unconsciously in order to avoid painful emotions. The author also warns against the danger of researchers’ confusing their own psychic materials with those of the informants and suggests strategies to minimise it. In sum, the book is worth reading for those interested in either military wives or psychosocial research methodology.