This workshop explores the concept of affective dissonance as an epistemic resource in ethnographic fieldwork. In anthropology, fieldwork is always an embodied and affectively charged encounter. Ethnographic knowledge is not produced in a vacuum; it emerges through complex interpersonal engagements, in which moods, emotions, atmospheres, and other affective dynamics play a crucial role. These affective undercurrents often come to the fore not as harmonious resonances, but as dissonances—moments when something feels “off,” misaligned, or affectively disruptive. These moments are often unsettling, but they are also generative. They mark interruptions in the expected flow of understanding, signalling that divergent forms of knowledge, values, or world-making are in contact—and sometimes in conflict.