Between one and one another / Michael Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Michael, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Ethnopsychology.

Intersubjectivity.

Self-perception.

Other minds (Theory of knowledge).

Physical Description:

221 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]

Summary:

Michael Jackson extends his pathbreaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of being part of other people's lives and that of turning inward to one's self. Grounding his discussion in the subtle shifts between being acted upon and taking action, Jackson shows how the historical complexities and particularities found in human interactions reveal the dilemmas, conflicts, cares, and concerns that shape all of our lives. Through portraits of individuals encountered in the course of his travels, including friends and family, and anthropological fieldwork pursued over many years in such places as Sierra Leone and Australia. Jackson explores variations on this theme. As he describes the ways we address and negotiate the vexed relationships between "I" and "we"-the one and the many-he is also led to consider the place of thought in human life. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preamble

The philosopher who would not be king

Hermit in the water of life

Writing workshop

How much home does a person need?

Clearings in the bush

The Gulf of Corinth

It's other people who are my old age

Objects in mirror appear closer than they appear

I am an other

Yonder

Reading Siddhartha to Freya at Forest Lake

On the work and writing of ethnography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index.

ISBN:

9780520272330

0520272331

9780520272354

0520272358

OCLC:

733546732