What is existential anthropology
By: edited by Michael Jackson and Albert Piette
Contributors: Jackson, Michael; Piette, Albert, 1960-
Publisher: Berghahn; Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781782386360; 9781782386377
Subjects: Anthropology; Philosophy
Description: 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. Michael Jackson is Distinguished Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. He has done fieldwork among the Kuranko of Sierra Leone, the Warlpiri of Central Australia, the Kuku-Yalanji of Cape York Peninsula, and with African migrants in Europe. He is the author of over thirty books of ethnography, poetry, and fiction.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.