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"The real beauty of this book is that the thinking does not stop... deep in the thickets of philosophic references. Instead, true to the spirit of phenomoenology, we are provided with provocative accounts of how such thinking flows in contemporary anthropological practice."" -XCP - Cross Cultural Poetics In this timely collection, thirteen contemporary ethnographers demonstrate the importance of phenomenological and existential ideas for anthropology. In emphasizing the link between the empirical and the experiential, these ethnographers also explore the relationship between phenomenology and other theories of the lifeworld, such as existentialism, radical empiricism, and critical theory."

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Author:   Michael Jackson ,  Michael Jackson
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780253210500

ISBN 10:   025321050
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   22 August 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Phenomenology, Radical Empiricism, and Anthropological Critique, by Michael Jackson Honor and Shame, by Lila Abu-Lughod Struggling Along, by Robert Desjarlais The Cosmology of Life Transmission, by René Devisch Reflections on a Cut Finger: Taboo in the Umeda Conception of the Self, by Alfred Gell Space and Sociality in a Dayak Longhouse, by Christine Helliwell In Defiance of Destiny: The Management of Time at a Cretan Funeral, by Michael Herzfeld Suffering and Its Professional Transformation: Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience, by Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman Hand Drumming: An Essay in Practical Knowledge, by Shawn Lindsay On Dying and Suffering in Iqwaye Existence, by Jadran Mimica If Not the Words: Shared Practical Activity and Friendship in Fieldwork, by Keith Ridler After the Field, by Jim Wafer

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Michael D. Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His many books include Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology; Between One and One Another; Road Markings: An Anthropologist in the Antipodes; and Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives (IUP, 1982).

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