Lifeworlds : essays in existential anthropology /
Jackson, Michael,1940-
Chicago, Ill. ; London : The University of Chicago Press,
2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Anthropology
Ethnology
Kuranko (African people)
Human body.
Existential phenomenology.