Lifeworlds : Essays in Existential Anthropology - Michael Jackson

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Lifeworlds

Essays in Existential Anthropology

By: Michael Jackson

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Paperback | 22 November 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Michael Jackson’s Lifeworlds is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined, world and word, and body and mind, and taking inspiration from James, Dewey, Arendt, Husserl, Sartre, Camus, and, especially, Merleau-Ponty, Jackson creates in these chapters a distinctive anthropological pursuit of existential inquiry. More important, he buttresses this philosophical approach with committed empirical research. Traveling from the Kuranko in Sierra Leone to the Maori in New Zealand to the Warlpiri in Australia, Jackson argues that anthropological subjects continually negotiate—imaginatively, practically, and politically—their relations with the forces surrounding them and the resources they find in themselves or in solidarity with significant others. At the same time that they mirror facets of the larger world, they also help shape it. Stitching the themes, peoples, and locales of these essays into a sustained argument for a philosophical anthropology that focuses on the places between, Jackson offers a pragmatic understanding of how people act to make their lives more viable, to grasp the elusive, to counteract external powers, and to turn abstract possibilities into embodied truths.

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"Lifeworlds is an extraordinary book, remarkable for its depth, scholarship, and lightness of touch. It puts the whole question of anthropology's relation to philosophy in a new light. Michael Jackson is not only a great ethnologist, he is also a major theoretician of anthropological knowledge. Not many people could have taken up such profound issues while wearing their scholarship so lightly." (Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University)"

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Sociology Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Social & Political Philosophy Science Science in General Archaeology

Preface	p. xi
The Scope of Existential Anthropology	p. 3
How to Do Things with Stones	p. 31
Knowledge of the Body	p. 51
The Migration of a Name: Alexander in Africa	p. 75
The Man Who Could Turn into an Elephant	p. 93
Custom and Conflict in Sierra Leaone: An Essay on Anarchy	p. 115
Migrant Imaginaries: With Sewa Koroma in Southeast London	p. 137
The Stories That Shadow Us	p. 169
Familiar and Foreign Bodies: A Phenomenological Exploration of the Human-Technology Interface	p. 191
The Prose of Suffering	p. 209
On Autonomy: An Ethnographic and Existential Critique	p. 229
Where Thought Belongs: An Anthropological Critique of the Project of Philosophy	p. 253
Epilogue	p. 271
Acknowledgments	p. 279
Notes	p. 281
Index	p. 325
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