Lifeworlds : essays in existential anthropology / Michael Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Michael, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Ethnology--Sierra Leone.

Ethnology.

Sierra Leone.

Kuranko (African people).

Human body.

Existential phenomenology.

Physical Description:

pages ; cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Summary:

Michael Jackson's Lifeworlds is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career of exploring the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Drawing inspiration from James, Dewey, Arendt, Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty, and from ethnographic fieldwork among the Kuranko of Sierra Leone, the Warlpiri of Central Australia, and the Maori of Aotearoa (New Zealand), Jackson outlines an existential anthropology grounded in the dynamics and quandaries of everyday life. He offers a pragmatic understanding of how people act to make their lives more viable, to bridge the gap between self and other, to grasp the elusive, and to transform abstract possibilities into embodied truths. Book jacket.

Contents:

The scope of existential anthropology

How to do things with stones

Knowledge of the body

The migration of a name: Alexander in Africa

The man who could turn into an elephant

Custom and conflict in Sierra Leone: an essay on anarchy

Migrant imaginaries: with Sewa Koroma in southeast London

The stories that shadow us

Foreign and familiar bodies: a phenomenological exploration of the human-technology interface

The prose of suffering

On autonomy: an ethnographic and existential critique

Where thought belongs: an anthropological critique of the project of philosophy

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226923642

9780226923659

0226923649

0226923657

OCLC:

783150251