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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480291603321

Autore

Jackson Michael

Titolo

What Is Existential Anthropology? [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2015

ISBN

1-78238-637-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PietteAlbert

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Anthropology

Anthropology--Philosophy

Anthropology - Philosophy

Social Sciences

Anthropology - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

What is Existential Anthropology; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Conversion and Convertiblility in Northern Mozambique; Chapter 2. Both/And; Chapter 3. Reading Bruno Latour in Bahia; Chapter 4. The Station Hustle; Chapter 5. Mobility and Immobility in the Life of an Amputee; Chapter 6. Existential Aporias and the Precariousness of Being; Chapter 7. Existence, Minimality, and Believing; Chapter 8. Considering Human Existence; Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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 ha