Lifeworlds
Subtitle: essays in existential anthropology
By: Michael Jackson
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780226923642; 9780226923659; 9780226923666
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Anthropology; Kuranko (African people); Ethnology; Human body; Existential phenomenology; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The scope of existential anthropology; title: How to do things with stones; title: Knowledge of the body; title: The migration of a name: Alexander in Africa; title: The man who could turn into an elephant; title: Custom and conflict in Sierra Leone: an essay on anarchy; title: Migrant imaginaries: with Sewa Koroma in southeast London; title: The stories that shadow us; title: Foreign and familiar bodies: a phenomenological exploration of the human-technology interface; title: The prose of suffering; title: On autonomy: an ethnographic and existential critique; title: Where thought belongs: an anthropological critique of the project of philosophy; title: Epilogue.