| Title:
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THINGS AS THEY ARE
NEW DIRECTIONS IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY |
| By: |
Michael Jackson (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£35.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
025333036X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253330369 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 1996 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Contains essays that examine the relevance of phenomenology for anthropology. In emphasizing the link between the empirical and the experiential, these essays explore the relationship between phenomenology and other theories of the lifeworld, such as existentialism, radical empiricism, and critical theory. |
| Synopsis: |
In this timely collection of essays, 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.Contents include the following: 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 Ren 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; and After the Field by Jim Wafer. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |