ISBN:
9781782386377
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
254 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
Abstract:
What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? What has been gained by using existential perspectives in your fieldwork and writing? Editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette each invited anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic to address these questions and explore how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory. Both editors also bring their own perspective: while Jackson has drawn on phenomenology, deploying the concepts of intersubjectivity, lifeworld, experience, existential mobility, and event, Piette has drawn on Heidegger's Dasein-analysis, and developed a phenomenographical method for the observation and description of human beings in their singularity and ever-changing situations.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Anthropology and the Existential Turn -- Michael Jackson and Albert Piette -- Chapter 1. Continuities of Change: Conversion and Convertibility in Northern Mozambique -- Devaka Premawardhana -- Chapter 2. Both/And -- Michael Lambek -- Chapter 3. Reading Bruno Latour in Bahia -- Mattijs Van de Port -- Chapter 4. The Station Hustle: Ghanaian Migration Brokerage in a Disjointed World -- Hans Lucht -- Chapter 5. Mobility and Immobility in the Life of an Amputee -- Sónia Silva -- Chapter 6. Existential Aporias and the Precariousness of Being -- Michael Jackson -- Chapter 7. Existence, Minimality and Believing -- Albert Piette -- Chapter 8. Considering Human Existence: An existential reading of Michael Jackson and Albert Piette. -- Laurent Denizeau -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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